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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8361050" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Or it could be a sign of something bad. Do a little research into the non-union workers hired by Sabat for the original Power Rangers. They were all new, fresh faces who didn't have a career yet. They worked in dangerous conditions (the actress for the pink ranger was nearly electrocuted on set), they worked long hours until they were exhausted, and they were paid 600 dollars a week. Incredibly low, even by first time actor standards. And when the show was successful and three of the members went to Sabat to demand things like a raise and better working conditions? Fired and replaced. With more non-union actors. Sure, it gave us Power Rangers, but it was clearly exploitative and wrong. Relying on the inexperience of individuals in question to get away with practices no one with more experience would tolerate. Same with the writer of the Forest Gump Novel, who was cheated out of the movie sales, because he didn't know the legal lingo the companies use for "Hollywood Accounting" and a massively successful film "technically" made no money, so he made no money. Was this particular example as bad as those? No. But it shows that just saying "but this is for amateurs, it might start their career" is naive at best. Especially since, this wasn't an amatuer contest. Those are called out. This was a general call to the community, many of whom do design work of one sort or another.</blockquote>

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