People sometimes complain about the athletes as well. But I look at it from the perspective of how much the owners of a team or movie make from the athletes or actors. I think taking that into consideration it's fair.

In my opinion they deserve every cent they make. Unless you've been in their shoes, you have no clue how hard they've worked rehearsing their lines, how much they've been pushed around by producers and directors, and how much they have suffered in their personal life. Almost every celebrity who is even remotely famous has been attacked publicly on the internet either through forums or articles and networking websites (ahem, twitter). How much do you think you should make if your reputation is being put on the line like that? No amount of money can change the way people think about them and talk about them publicly.

Haw haw, I laugh at you and all others who had to go through 4 years of boring BA degree for a job that only pays 500,000$ a year. That part of the system was screwed up to begin with, yet you folks did not realize it and went with it. That is your result!

Why not? Would you turn it down? I wouldn't if I had a talent I could turn into money! Many people make more money than we can comprehend but that's OK. They also give back, which is phenomenal to me. Let them make it...I'm not so someone should! I've known actors to not take a dime for a role they wanted very badly but couldn't get or the producers couldn't come up with the nickels to pay him/her.

If you dont disperse it out to the actors or what ever, than the director and producer get way more money than they already do. That's even more screwed up.

You have to see the celebrity as merely the face of the bigger company. Think of their name as the name of a company, not the name of a person, just like coca cola or MacDonald's. When the studios hire Brad Pitt, they are not hiring just the actor whose face we have come to know, they are hiring the company that is called "Brad Pitt" and the business/clientele (audience) that the company brings. The 20 million that "Brad Pitt" gets, is not all for the actor of that company. He has to pay his entourage, make up artists, publicists, agent, manager, advertiser, and a whole army of people who work for the "Brad Pitt" company.

In other words, no one is paid millions just for their acting skills, otherwise all actors would be paid millions. The only ones that make that kind of money are the ones that have built a business around their name and have loads of customers who go to see them. They also make good use of technology and manage to produce a product (movie) once, and then sell it over and over. Much like Sony produces a television and sells millions of copies of it. Think of Brad Pitt as Sony.

So no, I don't think there is anything unfair about it. Everybody could do something similar in their field of work. A teacher for example could make DVDs with educational material and by establishing a good name for themselves, could sell multiple copies of them and make millions. Not by teaching, but by doing business.

YES!

When you think that doctors, fireamen, policemen and teachers do a very important job, but they don't get paid as much, it seems unfair. The celebrities get their money from people liking their music, or acting. They don't just get the money for being in a movie. If they don't work hard and people dont like it, than they dont get the money. It is fair.

If you look at it realistically, celebrities are a commodity. And they are being distributed to millions of people. If we think of it as a per-unit price, then it doesn't seem exorbitant.

really i agree with this thanks.Oh ya... so, ya mean, even if an athlete signs a 5 million contract for 4 years, parts of the money goes towards the owner and stuff? Do they even get taxes taken out too?

If there is a market for movies and we all know how big it is of course they should get paid according to the market. I do not understand why someone should be taxed more than others just because they know how to do something better than the next guy. We live in America where anyone can have the opportunity to do something great.

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This is one of those "don't hate the player, hate the game" scenarios. I, personally, think that what they make for essentially entertaining us is pretty ludicrous. I can think of several careers that make far less but are more deserving of such profits. But...

In a market economy, wages are essentially determined the same way prices for products are. The wages hit a happy medium where the employer pays as much as he is willing to pay, the employee makes at least as much as they are willing to make. Both parties get the best out of it that they could. And the reason the employers are willing to pay such high salaries to entertainers is because they stand to make quite a bit more for their investment. The amount to be made by them is mostly determined by supply and demand, like any other product, so it is basically us fixing their salary. If an actor can get away with charging 10 million or so for a single movie, then it is really the movie going public who has convinced the producer that the actor is worth it.

Not exactly my favorite aspect of economics, but it is as fair as any aspect of capitalism.

they have maken great efforts so as to get the achievements nowadays.pehaps,you just notice the bright feathers and outlook and neglect the pain behind the appearance.

They do! Do you know why? Because the industry is paying them that much. Honestly, if they're worth it to them, and they're willing to pay them that much, then more power to those actors. They figured something out the rest of us didn't.

Sure. Being enormously famous is probably severely handicapping. You can't go here, you can't go there. You are probably wary of anyone you meet. You have to deal with all the bad things about celebrity (tabloids, harassment, etc.) indefinitely as long as you live in the public world. Maybe celebrities get all that money in order to build their own little private worlds. For instance, they can have houses in France where there are stricter privacy laws (like Johnny Depp) or buy their own tropical island (like Johnny Depp).

Also, there's a lot of money in entertainment. For instance, if films make that much money, and actors statistically increase profits dramatically, then they sure deserve a hefty slice and especially since they're dealing with all the shit mentioned above.

What do you think?

The amount of money celebrities make depends on how much people are willing to spend to see that person on screen or hear that person sing. Tom cruise did not start out making 25 million dollars a film. His popularity rose and pretty soon people were going to see a movie because Tom Cruise was in it not because it was cinematic genius. If a movie makes 500 million it wouldn't be fair to the person who brought in that 500 million to get 500 thousand dollars from it which is .001 percent of what that movie made which compared to the starting amount is basically nothing compared to it. It may still be alot of money but put yourself in the actors shoes. If you had a big paycheck shoved in your face would you really say sorry thats too much. If you wouldn't refuse alot of money than you shouldn't be hating celebrities just because that bring in bank for something that they love.Besides I think people forget how boring and useless our lives would be without any music or TV. Doctors, Lawyers etc. keep us living but entertainment makes life worth living for. Without it we are just zombies waiting to grow up, get a job, support ourselves (for what if life is boring and unworthy of living). If people truly have a problem with how much celebrities make, maybe they should stop paying so much to see them. Oh wait. . . that will never happen because people love it too much.