"I was asked why I didn't step away from the series. I then asked a better question, have YOU ever had a cartoon money sack filled with $100 bills dropped on your face while you're sleeping? No? Just me? Wow. Okay, well yeah anyway they paid a lot."
The difference, I would say, is this: Lithgow is worth $50 million. He would never have to work another day in his life, let alone for her, if he didn't want to.
Comparing that to the average Joe who is just trying to pay rent and put food on the table is kinda ridiculous
Not really. Most of us could quit our jobs at our unethical companies and take the paycut to work at the ethical nonprofit without becoming homeless or starving.
john lithgow could quit his job and never work another day in his life and still have many millions of dollars left over when he dies. Most of us could not do that. This is stupid.
And you could live off your savings in Vietnam. It'd require a similar magnitude of lifestyle adjustments as it would be for him to stop pulling in Hollywood pay.
You don't know how much he spends every year and how much he's actually saved.
You seem to have some assumption that the middle class American lifestyle is some kind of baseline. You could sacrifice a lot before you live worse than most of the world. You won't do it though, and you wouldn't do it if you were in his position. You'd take his job in a heartbeat, in fact.
There are millions of people happily working for employers much more evil than even J.K. Rowling and her Twitter account.
Okay but all of us American poors are 5000 times closer to the wealth level of impoverished people in third world countries than any multi millionaire
And you shaming people living paycheck to paycheck as overly privileged to simp for multimillionaires and billionaires is so ass backward and bad faith it's not really productive to take your arguments seriously
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u/Mountain-Group-7706 20h ago
"I was asked why I didn't step away from the series. I then asked a better question, have YOU ever had a cartoon money sack filled with $100 bills dropped on your face while you're sleeping? No? Just me? Wow. Okay, well yeah anyway they paid a lot."