Choosing Beggars

<p>In Hollywood, there&#39;s a culture of working for free to &quot;pay your dues&quot; or working for gratis because it&#39;s a supposedly great &quot;opportunity.&quot; It&#39;s a bullshit culture, but nonetheless, people continue to participate in it and work for free.</p><h2>However when a producer approached a friend and asked him if he knew any backup dancers that would dance in a music video for a supposedly &quot;well known artist&quot; for free, the friend put the producer on blast in the best way.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="1064" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/5-4Twt3v.jpg" width="535" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><h2>The producer explained that there was no pay for the gig, but that the dancers would &quot;get a lot of exposure&quot; and called it a great &quot;networking opportuity&quot; that would lead to a &quot;shit ton of $$$$ on the future!!!&quot; Sure, Jan.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="1104" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/4-3bLtnj.jpg" width="537" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>The friend clarified the producer&#39;s ask for free work and point blank asked him if he&#39;s &quot;looking for naive and vulnerable young people to exploit for free labor on his music video.&quot; He also called out the hypocrisy of filming at a &quot;famous artists house&quot; with &quot;expensive filming equipment&quot; but having none left over to pay the dancers.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="1094" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/3-Iff0kp.jpg" width="558" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><h2>The producer protested saying that this was &quot;common&quot; and the friend asked him to pay the dancers with his own money, citing his &quot;paintball gun collection&quot; and his purebred pitbull as evidence that he can afford to pay the dancers.</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="1067" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/2-le3n7V.jpg" width="537" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>The exchange ended with the producer threatening the friend&#39;s career and the friend&#39;s triumphant clapback of &quot;That&#39;s how trying to bullshit people smarter then you works. You lie and then I trap you.&quot;</h2><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="1058" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/1-e7YUGO.jpg" width="550" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><p>Naturally, the comment section had a lot to say about paying someone in &quot;exposure.&quot; Some even wanted the original poster to expose the producer&#39;s name &mdash; no point in protecting a predator.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="108" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2019-12-06-at-15823-pm-bbVQn3.png" width="961" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="75" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2019-12-06-at-15906-pm-WoCLf5.png" width="957" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Imgur" data-attribution-url="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu" height="80" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2019-12-06-at-20101-pm-D1fd7H.png" width="958" /></div> <figcaption></figcaption> <div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/93i49hu">Imgur</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>And on that note, if you hire someone &mdash; pay them. Nobody can pay their bills by &quot;getting ur name and face out there.&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Producer ridiculed by friend for trying to find backup dancers who will work for 'exposure.'

In Hollywood, there&#39;s a culture of working for free to &quot;pay your dues&quot; or working for gratis because it&#39;s a supposedly great &quot;opportunity.&quot; It&#39;s a bullshit culture, but nonetheless, people continue to participate in it and work for free.However when a producer approached a friend and asked him if he knew any backup dancers that would dance in a music video for a supposedly &quot;well known artist&quot; for free, the friend put the producer on blast in the best way.  ImgurThe producer explained that there was no pay for the gig, but that the dancers would &quot;get a lot of exposure&quot; and called it a great &quot;networking opportuity&quot; that would lead to a &quot;shit ton of $$$$ on the future!!!&quot; Sure, Jan.  ImgurThe friend clarified the producer&#39;s ask for free work and point blank asked him if he&#39;s &quot;looking for naive and vulnerable young people to exploit for free labor on his music video.&quot; He also called out the hypocrisy of filming at a &quot;famous artists house&quot; with &quot;expensive filming equipment&quot; but having none left over to pay the dancers.  ImgurThe producer protested saying that this was &quot;common&quot; and the friend asked him to pay the dancers with his own money, citing his &quot;paintball gun collection&quot; and his purebred pitbull as evidence that he can afford to pay the dancers.  ImgurThe exchange ended with the producer threatening the friend&#39;s career and the friend&#39;s triumphant clapback of &quot;That&#39;s how trying to bullshit people smarter then you works. You lie and then I trap you.&quot;  ImgurNaturally, the comment section had a lot to say about paying someone in &quot;exposure.&quot; Some even wanted the original poster to expose the producer&#39;s name &mdash; no point in protecting a predator.  Imgur  Imgur  ImgurAnd on that note, if you hire someone &mdash; pay them. Nobody can pay their bills by &quot;getting ur name and face out there.&quot;

In Hollywood, there&#39;s a culture of working for free to &quot;pay your dues&quot; or working for gratis because it&#39;s a supposedly great &quot;opportunity.&quot; It&#39;s a bullshit culture, but nonetheless, people continue to...

Producer ridiculed by friend for trying to find backup dancers who will work for 'exposure.'

However when a producer approached a friend and asked him if he knew any backup dancers that would dance in a music video for a supposedly "well known artist" for free, the friend put the producer on blast in the best way.

The producer explained that there was no pay for the gig, but that the dancers would "get a lot of exposure" and called it a great "networking opportuity" that would lead to a "shit ton of $$$$ on the future!!!" Sure, Jan.