RE: Craig Charles
March 12, 2015 at 6:19 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2015 at 6:26 am by jesus_wept.)
I'd ban copyright, repeat fees etc and bring these people in line with the rest of the world. He did his job and got paid well for it, £600 is still a good wage now (most people I know don't earn it a week), and that should be it. If everyone else got paid like this nothing would get done and the world would grind to a standstill. I'm a tiler and I don't get paid everytime somebody walks on my floors, if they did I would've retired after a train station I did years ago, and the bloke who designed the bus doesn't get commision everytime somebody buys a ticket. The idea is ridiculous if anyone else wants it, but it's a case of one rule for them and another for the rest of us when it comes to actors, popstars and sport stars because they think they're special and deserve special treatment.
But my real gripe is where the money comes from, if red dwarf fans want to support Craig Charles retirement fund that's up to them, but they don't and the money is instead taken off people with absolutely no interest in it through advertising, sponorships, licence fees, etc etc. Theyre basically being subsidised by people who don't earn money sitting on their backsides all day, who have never earned £600 for doing their job and don't care about them or their programmes.
And then, to top it off, you then get the wankers asking for our money on comic relief (or whatever tax avoixance scheme theyre currently working on), while they pay accountants more money than we earn to avoid paying taxes and giving any money to the people they're asking us to help.
Basically, screw Craig Charles and his first world problems, and all celebrities in general. The rest of us are too busy supporting the ponces while struggling on minimum wage to care about their bullshit.
And I'm sorry about the rant everyone, it's a subject I can't help but get very passionate about.
I'm not sure why you think a rape case in 1995 has any relevance on how much he earned in 1986 either, did the producers have a crystal ball they looked into so they knew what was going to happen in the future and adjusted the wages accordingly? "Right, in 9 years he's going to delay production on series seven while he's accused of rape. Let's dock his wages now"
It doesn't make much sense to me.
But my real gripe is where the money comes from, if red dwarf fans want to support Craig Charles retirement fund that's up to them, but they don't and the money is instead taken off people with absolutely no interest in it through advertising, sponorships, licence fees, etc etc. Theyre basically being subsidised by people who don't earn money sitting on their backsides all day, who have never earned £600 for doing their job and don't care about them or their programmes.
And then, to top it off, you then get the wankers asking for our money on comic relief (or whatever tax avoixance scheme theyre currently working on), while they pay accountants more money than we earn to avoid paying taxes and giving any money to the people they're asking us to help.
Basically, screw Craig Charles and his first world problems, and all celebrities in general. The rest of us are too busy supporting the ponces while struggling on minimum wage to care about their bullshit.
And I'm sorry about the rant everyone, it's a subject I can't help but get very passionate about.
I'm not sure why you think a rape case in 1995 has any relevance on how much he earned in 1986 either, did the producers have a crystal ball they looked into so they knew what was going to happen in the future and adjusted the wages accordingly? "Right, in 9 years he's going to delay production on series seven while he's accused of rape. Let's dock his wages now"
It doesn't make much sense to me.
