Are stars justified to obtain high incoms?

@simon611 (598)
China
December 8, 2008 8:17am CST
The prosperity of entertainment and sports circles was ,actually,hard to image in the old days.A pop star will earn lots of dollars by singing only a song,and he will earn several millions by acting a film.But many people work hard only earn a little money.I think it is unfair,but it is the fact.I hope everyone will be rich rather than only very few men have the most money. What's your opinion?
1 response
@stinge (810)
• United States
8 Dec 08
I would think that doing films gives the best opportunity for making money especaily if yu are a very good actor who's in demand by alot of directors. Look at will Smith. He's in just about everything. The thing with acting is that you get your check no matter how good or bad the film is. when it comes to music, the money isn't made from selling records unless you handle your own distribution. the real money comes from going in tours and doing lots of shows. Look at guys like Fat Joe. he doesn't have a distribution deal with any record company. he put out an album last year and spent his own money to get his cd's in stores. His cd only sold something like 80,000 copies compared to 200 million sold by Rick Ross. But all that money went to Fat Joes Pockets. That's $15 per cd that went straight to Fat Joe. The average artist only makes $0.10 off of each cd when the record label distributes them. So Fat Joe did better money wise by going independent over Rick Ross who sold millions. Most of his money went back to the record label.