why are actors so highly paid and emergency service people under paid?

Answer 1

Emergency service people are employed by either city, county, state, or the federal government and their budgets are a lot smaller than the budget for the production company that is making the movie. Movies generally make a profit for the production company so they can then reinvest into making another movie. Emergency service people are paid out of the tax revenue for the government entity they are employed by.

Answer 2

It's all about supply and demand; economics 101.

If I try and sell you a diamond, there is a good chance you'll pay me good money for it because there are a limited supply of diamonds and they are very attractive. If I try and sell you a dried dog turd, the chances are you won't want to buy it because they are not rare, nor attractive, nor desirable.

Okay so that's an extreme example.

If I hire Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore to do a movie, if the movie is good there is a good chance that it could earn dozens of millions of dollars for my corporation. So clearly I am going to have to offer them a lot of money to participate in my project. Matt and Drew know they are highly successful actors and they know that they can pull in a massive audience for my movie. That's just how it works.

What actors do is completely unimportant next to saving lives, but the fact is if millions of people are prepared to pay millions of dollars to see them act, then they deserve a piece of that pie.

Emergency service workers do a wonderful job, but it's not that hard to find people with medical training who can do the job. So with a reasonable supply of workers capable of doing that kind of work, and the fact that they may only directly impact a few hundred lives in a year, there is clearly going to be a difference in what they get paid.

The only way to change things would be for the government to impose ridiculous restrictions on what people could earn. Someone would have to collect all the profit made by businesses and then redistribute this wealth in accordance with the most 'important' jobs people do. But such a model is completely unrealistic in a free society.

People don't get paid what they are worth, people are usually paid the minimum a corporation thinks it can get away with paying them.

Answer 3

Actors entertain thousands of people at a time and get their minds off of their troubles. Emergency service people help only one person at a time. Isn't that a *****?

Answer 4

I know what you are saying totally. But it is not only actors, politicians get heaps of money too and they are not saving lives. If anything they are stufffing up lives.
Good question.

Answer 5

Don't know how it got so screwed up. Guess people would rather be entertained than saved from being hurt or dying.

Answer 6

Actors have agents that negotiate high salaires for them.

Answer 7

I guess people are more willing to pay for entertainment (it makes people happy) than for anythng that may remind them that they are sick. Good question, though.

Answer 8

because this world is retarded and the good people get screwed

Answer 9

silly isn't it?