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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
While I suppose you could argue it was good for the Hollywood producers and the audience, the "star machine" of Hollywood routinely treated the bulk of its actors and actresses like cattle, ground them out and discarded them when done. Writers and technicians were treated even worse. So, again, the moguls got rich, the people got their bread and circuses, and the creators got the shaft.
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Steve, even in the 1920' and 30's, when the talent was being shafted the hardest, they were still making 2-10 times what equivalent labor was making elsewhere in other industries (and i'm talking about the "little people" working behind the scenes.)