If there's one thing I've learned observing bureaucracy in action is that trickle down corruption is very much a thing and whatever theoretical sum is achieved, the end sum reaching where it needs to go is quite often less than half of the initial funds.
When it comes to money, it's dirty all the way down, not just the top.
Story time! We recently bought a rural property with a burnt down house on it and are going up every few weekends to clean it up. I'm up there this morning picking up random sheet metal and yeeting it into the trash pile. Suddenly I hear frantic squeaks....I look, and I accidentally yeeted the cover of a squirrel nest (I think...
This is assuming that Hollywood is about fair work. But we already know part of it is about laundering money, sometimes of dubious provenience.
Now, i’m going to go ahead and assume that some of the Hollywood investors aren’t that keen on sharing what they presume to be their money with the cheap labour as this might endanger their funneling operations.
A Tax of 5% on The World’s Multi-Millionaires and Billionaires Could Raise $1.7 trillion, Enough to Lift 2 Billion People out of Poverty ( medium.com )
Saw this and thought it was fake until I googled. It's real. ( lemmy.world )
The QR code...
I held a baby squirrel today! ( lemmy.world )
Story time! We recently bought a rural property with a burnt down house on it and are going up every few weekends to clean it up. I'm up there this morning picking up random sheet metal and yeeting it into the trash pile. Suddenly I hear frantic squeaks....I look, and I accidentally yeeted the cover of a squirrel nest (I think...
SAG-AFTRA Alleges ‘Bully Tactics’ as Studios Suspend Negotiations ( variety.com )
SAG-AFTRA negotiations have been suspended, as the AMPTP says the union is seeking an untenable streaming residual.