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| Earned? | |
| Last Edit: KingSpeed 06:23 pm EDT 07/22/21 | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 06:20 pm EDT 07/22/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Actors’ Equity Association Announces ‘Open Access,’ Expanding Eligibility for Union Membership - Revned 03:20 am EDT 07/22/21 | |
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| I personally wouldn’t really say I “earned” my membership. I got in because I was fortunate to be hired to be in a show at the Guthrie Theater in 1995. It was a subjective decision by the director. It didn’t mean I was more talented than the other actors who auditioned. It just meant they thought I’d be good in that specific role. Being in the union says nothing about how talented you are. It just means you’ve been paid. | |
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| re: Earned? | |
| Posted by: ryhog 07:36 pm EDT 07/22/21 | |
| In reply to: Earned? - KingSpeed 06:20 pm EDT 07/22/21 | |
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| It's pretty clear that what revned was describing was a guild and it is equally clear to anyone familiar with AEA that it is not a guild. In a guild, one apprentices until one is anointed by the guild as a journeyman. That still exists for workers in fields where competence is a prerequisite (e.g., we would not want an electrician or carpenter whose work might get us killed), but in the theatre crafts, competence is in the eye of the beholder. (E.g., I think Rylance is at least arguably the greatest living actor yet have a good friend, a fine actor everyone here knows and the sort of person who would be involved in judging other actors were there such a thing, who thinks he is a hack, a one trick pony, and so on.) "Earned" in this context is a euphemism for chaos, not to mention stasis, prejudice, and systemic racism. No thanks. | |
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| Exactly. nm | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 08:35 pm EDT 07/22/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Earned? - ryhog 07:36 pm EDT 07/22/21 | |
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