> George Lucas

Once again, lopsided allocation - George benefited from and is directly responsible for keeping the cost of labor low: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/100...

Would he have been a billionaire without that? Who knows? But it definitely helped him get there.

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groundzeros2015 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I addressed that. The movies themselves are not the source of the wealth and yes the original was created by a group so small that theoretically Star Wars wealth could have been divided evenly and they would be billionaires.

If you say the original crew did not do all the labor required to make the franchise grow in the future (obviously true), you are now arguing different people have had incremental impact on creating the wealth, which is kind of the point.

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blanched 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I might be misunderstanding your point then.

Are you saying that he/the small group are solely responsible for Disney wanting to pay 4 billion for it?

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groundzeros2015 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes I’m arguing that the original crew created within the ball park of a billion in wealth per-head.

The Star Wars franchise earned a tremendous amount of money before the one-time Disney payout.

Jk Rowling and LeBron James are additional examples.

	▲	CPLX an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's instructive that people like you pick people like LeBron James or J.K. Rowling to make your points. The reason is that the conflict here is between labor and capital. And those two, at least in their primary roles, are labor, as a writer and an athlete. One of them is even a union member operating under a collective bargaining agreement. They're just the absolute pinnacle top of anything that could possibly be put in that category. But if I'm arguing that this is really about the division of of the spoils between labor and capital, and you have to resort to picking members of the labor class to make your argument then you have essentially conceded my point, which is that returns to labor are different than returns to capital, and returns to capital are much harder to defend. You didn't pick Bill Ackman for a reason.