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The way this works is, let's say I'm— okay, so let's say I get a job with, um, Coca-Cola. Yeah, let's say they pay me $50,000 to do something, right? X amount of posts. Um, then my manager takes 15. %. And if my agents brought it to me, then my manager still takes 15%, my agency gets 10%, right? Taxes? Yeah, taxes. Well, the lawyer is included in the 15% of the manager. Okay, that's good. And then, and then sometimes you have to give money to your publicist depending on who you're with, right? It's, it's, it's such a— everyone takes. So you, you, out of the $50,000, you end up usually seeing like 75% of it just because— and that's before taxes. Before taxes. It's an awful thing. Is that how it is in the rest of the
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David, you know what, what's the difference after you pay William Morris and I don't pay William Morris?
Oh, it's insane. Let's talk about that. Okay, let's talk about how many percentages you have to cut to people when you're working in this industry.
I keep it at a minimum. Yeah, I pay Jack, that's it.
The way this works is, let's say I'm— okay, so let's say I get a job with, um, Coca-Cola. Yeah, let's say they pay me $50,000 to do something, right? X amount of posts. Um, then my manager takes 15. %. And if my agents brought it to me, then my manager still takes 15%, my agency gets 10%, right? Taxes? Yeah, taxes. Well, the lawyer is included in the 15% of the manager. Okay, that's good. And the…
world? No, I don't think so. I mean, you know, people also don't make
$50,000. Yeah, I know. I'm complaining about an Instagram post
being— It's so hard, I know, David. It's just to type out one tweet to Chance the Rapper. Hey Chance, love the album. Oh God, I can't hit tweet on this. Hashtag app. I love when you and Todd and Scott get all