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01-05-2016, 07:12 PM
Well this might not be news to you, but it is to me.
The "white-slaver" awakens: It's not Disney to whom George Lucas should be apologizing
George Lucas ended his 2015 in controversy, describing Disney—owners of the Star Wars franchise—as “white slavers.” He quickly apologized. To Disney.
As readers of our series of articles on the Silicon Valley wage-theft cartel will recall, it was George Lucas himself who first initiated the illegal conspiracy to suppress tech workers’ wages by secretly coordinating recruitment and salaries with competing VFX film companies. Lucas later justified his actions by claiming that had he not secretly suppressed employees’ wages, the small movie studios would’ve gone bankrupt and everyone would’ve suffered. Stealing workers’ wages and their opportunities to protect Lucasfilm’s bottom line may have been an act of selfless benevolence, but it also turned Lucas into a multibillionaire when he sold out to Disney in 2012 and pocketed over four billion dollars for himself.
That crowd doesn’t appreciate Lucas’ reckless (and hypocritical) anti-corporate blather like calling Disney “white-slavers.” They’re all about networks, and Hell, so is Lucas. For example, after reneging on his initial pledge to give away his wealth, Lucas wound up plowing millions of his dollars into Starbucks—where his wife Mellody is a board director, a job she got through her lifelong friendship with Bill Bradley, a fellow Starbucks board director. Mellody’s connections to Rahm—Lucas’ wife was donating tens of thousands to his mayoral candidacy even as her firm was upping its management of city funds—helped grease the controversial ten dollar lakefront property, and the new law rushed through by Illinois’ zillionaire Republican governor providing special legal protections for Lucas so that he could rush his museum deal through, a bill that piggybacked on the planned new Obama Library...
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https://pando.com/2016/01/05/white-slaver-awakens-how-george-lucas-suppressed-employees-wages-while-becoming-multibillionaire/c6c32ce0bbbcf8647775581f9c95370c7424da13/
The "white-slaver" awakens: It's not Disney to whom George Lucas should be apologizing
George Lucas ended his 2015 in controversy, describing Disney—owners of the Star Wars franchise—as “white slavers.” He quickly apologized. To Disney.
As readers of our series of articles on the Silicon Valley wage-theft cartel will recall, it was George Lucas himself who first initiated the illegal conspiracy to suppress tech workers’ wages by secretly coordinating recruitment and salaries with competing VFX film companies. Lucas later justified his actions by claiming that had he not secretly suppressed employees’ wages, the small movie studios would’ve gone bankrupt and everyone would’ve suffered. Stealing workers’ wages and their opportunities to protect Lucasfilm’s bottom line may have been an act of selfless benevolence, but it also turned Lucas into a multibillionaire when he sold out to Disney in 2012 and pocketed over four billion dollars for himself.
That crowd doesn’t appreciate Lucas’ reckless (and hypocritical) anti-corporate blather like calling Disney “white-slavers.” They’re all about networks, and Hell, so is Lucas. For example, after reneging on his initial pledge to give away his wealth, Lucas wound up plowing millions of his dollars into Starbucks—where his wife Mellody is a board director, a job she got through her lifelong friendship with Bill Bradley, a fellow Starbucks board director. Mellody’s connections to Rahm—Lucas’ wife was donating tens of thousands to his mayoral candidacy even as her firm was upping its management of city funds—helped grease the controversial ten dollar lakefront property, and the new law rushed through by Illinois’ zillionaire Republican governor providing special legal protections for Lucas so that he could rush his museum deal through, a bill that piggybacked on the planned new Obama Library...
Full article unlocked for less than 48 hours now:
https://pando.com/2016/01/05/white-slaver-awakens-how-george-lucas-suppressed-employees-wages-while-becoming-multibillionaire/c6c32ce0bbbcf8647775581f9c95370c7424da13/