#corporations are evil

[swan2swan]

Ryan Potter took to Instagram to explain why he's not returning to voice his character in the certain-studio-made animated spin-off of a dinosaur franchise distributed on a streaming platform:

And honestly, that makes sense.

My assumption is that he requested that the returning cast be paid as if it were Season 3 of the show (assuming 4 and 5 were Season 2, and that the first show wasn't contracted as a lump group). But we're all familiar by now with the legalese of "If you change the title, it's a new show, not a renewal!", and clearly Ryan didn't want to play that game.

Furthermore, obviously getting all three corporations involved in this show's production to bow to that was just too much work and too impossible a demand, so he walked.

Paul, Raini, Sean, and Kausar are all still tied enough to these roles/have free enoigh schedules that they could use this to dig in further. As for...Darren? I think that's new Kenji?...he's already doing Blue-Eye Samurai, so signing up for this project probably checks another box off of his Netflix contract. And Jenna, well...Netflix works for HER now.

But hopefully, moves like Ryan's can bring awareness to the dangers of Synthesized Speech, and further pushes in the union can lead to better pay.

And hopefully the other VAs can come to a con sometime so I can give them money for signatures!

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

You get what you deserve, CEOs are just as replaceable if more so then workers. I mean there's only one CEO per company so it's way easier. In fact why don't we do away with capitalism as a whole and automated most of the economy as possible? We deserve to seize the means of production and do with it what we want.

[erik-powery-for-america]

WHAT HAPPENED TO BERNIE SANDERS?

[shinmothra13returns]

Exploited and Abandoned: A Worker’s Story of Corporate Greed

These less than human people will toss you under the bus if you criticize or don't do as they say. Heartless modern slavery.

[itsseriouslyridiculous]

there are a lot of news stories where a corporate whistle blower is found dead and the police say it's suicide.

I don't think it's suicide. I think the corporations pay someone to make their problem go away.

it is so suspicious for someone who is providing information to die when there are court cases going on

[eatingtherich-amenu]

NoBoDy WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe

Has been cried by employers for over a hundred years and has never been true.

People like to work. Every Universal Basic Income test every run has shown people continue to work when given ‘free’ money and there is an endless list of benefits aside from income to being employed. However, primarily and usually, people's driving factor to work is income. The employee is selling their time, skills and energies to the employer. And the employer wants that as cheaply as possible. There is a direct conflict for the employer of wanting to not do the work themselves and not wanting to pay someone else to do the work. They also usually remember doing the job themselves and what they were paid then stays as a fair value in their minds, despite it being years or decades prior. 

People want to work. People like to work. It’s beneficial for social, cultural, emotional, physical, mental and other reasons. It builds pride, develops a sense of identity, helps grow communities and engages physical and mental energies. 

What people don’t want is to be taken advantage of or treated poorly. This is not a workforce issue, this is an abuse issue. If you can’t afford to pay your employees a fair wage, then you don’t have a successful business. Other people do not owe you their time and abilities just for you to be able to call yourself a business owner.

“Basically: there’s too much stick, and not enough carrot. “The social contract is breaking down. It’s not working,” writer James Ball said on a recent episode of the New Statesman podcast. “Work doesn’t pay. You can be in professions and you can’t get a house. We haven’t had a pay rise, collectively as a nation, since 2007. People are doing everything ‘right’ and not getting the living standards of their parents at their age.” As Ball suggests, the financial crash has had long-lasting consequences: as the Resolution Foundation reported in 2019, young people’s pay and prospects have been forever “scarred” by the events of 2008. Additionally, new research from the RSA has found that 63 per cent of young people in full-time work experience financial precarity, rising to 79 per cent of those receiving universal credit.

Eve Livingston is a journalist and author of Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions. “Throughout young people’s lifetimes, work has paid less and less and conditions have worsened as successive governments have cut protections and dismantled union power,” she says. “In that context, it’s no surprise that young people are questioning the value of work or don’t see the point in doing it at all – if you know that work won’t pay for you to have any quality of life then there might seem to be little point in doing it just for the sake of it.”Source: Young people don’t want to work. Now what? | Dazed

[ministry-of-silly-hats]

Reblogging again to add that the reason why companies do this is so they can donate the money in their name and write it off as a tax deduction.

[victusinveritas]

Reminder: the companies and political entities pushing Project 2025 have addresses and go out to lunch a lot and should never eat a spitless meal for the rest of their lives.

Practice bagpipes outside their secure compounds.

Follow them around ringing a bell wherever they go.

If they are going to be farcically evil, be Animaniacally good. Be the definition of chaotic justice.

Also, vote. It might just kick the ball down the road a bit, but that gives people more time to organize a concerted resistance (in no way on any social media platform) to the fascist creep happening in America. It is possible to take this country from the bastards who control it, it will take work, effort, and occasionally going offline and talking to humans though.

[kagenoneko]

This feels like the case. I can see why wealth being concentrated in non-tangible assets does not allow for it to follow back to others.

This was a reply about white collar workers trading in for blue collar work once they hit 12, 18, 24 months of unemployment.

[sweaters-and-vertigo]

i saw a commercial from j.p. morgan chase for building affordable homes and immediately knew they were doing damage control for something.

and clearly they’ve had the ability to help people this whole time but they’re only doing it now to cover their asses. so yeah. fuck j.p. morgan.

[shinmothra13returns]

13 Signs Working Hard No Longer Pays

Hard work only gets you an early grave.

[eat-applez]

Fictional universe: And there was this COMPANY,,,,

Me: Oh they did some messed up shit didn’t they

EDIT: anyone who says “also in real life!!” or smth like that just know it’s been done 700 times.

[folyxfanart]

Dr. Luis Serra Navarro

[reno2005]

A really cool Easter egg I’d like to mention is that the poses used in the remake’s model viewers for Leon’s outfits reference promotional pictures used for the Original game.

I couldn’t fit these into the main post:

[nowherelaney]

I will defend danger days til the day I die