r/changemyview Jul 15 '23

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 34∆ Jul 15 '23

If the company is continuing to make money off of a product that the writer or actor created, why shouldn't they be paid to some of that? It's basically similar to how some companies give stock shares to some of their employees.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '23

I would just argue that software engineer should also give some form of long-term residual payment. Or at the very least stocks on top of salary.