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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
But you're ignoring the already successful authors who may see a pay cut.
You'd likely be pissing and moaning and saying your company are dirty rat bastards if they tell you to take a 5% pay cut and keep doing the same high quality work you've been doing for years.
Yet you seem to have no problem telling a successful authors to suck it up, write just as many books of the same quality as they always have and take less money for it.
That's what bothers me about the tone of many in this thread.
But that's just human nature. Companies are dirty rat bastards because they are made up of human beings who are dirty rat bastards that don't care about anything but their own self interests for the most part.
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Yes, I'd be moaning about it. And everyone within earshot would rightly tell me to shut up, suck it up, and either soldier on or do something about it. I would not expect random people to start championing my cause and decrying how unjustly I'm being treated, and how dare my company try to avoid layoffs by decreasing pay and keeping everyone employed, or so forth.
I didn't see all of you author-boosters frothing at the mouth when Macmillan lowered its contractual payout by 5% late last year.