Would you prefer getting paid for what you do, or would you like to also get paid for what someone else does?

The rule is you MUST get paid. I didn’t write the rule but like
everyone else, I am cognizant of the suffering involved with the indignities of work. And given the choice between my suffering and those of unnamed thers——well let’s be honest. It’s not my fault that those are the choices. That’s the way the game is rigged.

Your Q is too broad. For example, if I am laborer with a construction company, I don’t get paid unless there is work. So essentially, I get paid if someone else does the work of getting the contract to construct something.
If I make cars on the line, I don’t get paid unless the company I work for pays for good advertising that will convince people to buy those cars.

And yes, there is obviously a big moral difference between Vinnie who owns the sandwich shop down the street, and Jeff Bezos, which is why you need to narrow the parameters of your Q.

I like money. If you or someone else doesn’t want it, I will gladly take it off your hands.

Sometimes the work I do enables or sets up the work someone else does at a cost to them and vice versa. It’s not such a simple relationship.

So if I understand, you’re asking if, for example, I was a waitress and got paid, would I also want to get paid for what the cook does? Extremely stupid question. Who would agree to that?!

Hmmm…does that person also get paid? Do they get paid for someone else’s work? Or do they not get paid at all? What if they don’t work? Is that my only means for income? Do I get to choose the someone or are they chosen for me?

So many questions before I can answer your question. :P

Hmmm. . . , I never said you didn’t have to work for your money, lol.

Getting paid for what someone else does is sometimes known as “residual income”. Multilevel/network marketing schemes use residual income as a recruiting incentive. You buy and sell product from the company and convince other people to sign up and do the same. You get paid for what you sell, a percentage of what the people you recruit sell and a percentage of sales of people your recruits recruited.

I’ve tried this several times. I’ve sold Amway, waterless car wash, pain relieving peanut oil and…oh yeah…something really exciting called “video email”.

I’ve yet to find something that offers residual income in any opportunity other than sales. It always sounded like a great idea but it’s never worked for me. It seems like the only people who successfully earn residual income are people really good at sales and promotion, people who have money, people who KNOW people who have money and people who jump on board when such opportunities first become available. That’s why such opportunities are also commonly known as “pyramid schemes”.

So yeah I would have loved to work and get paid for what other people do. I just didn’t have what it took to make it work.

I prefer getting income from my own efforts.
Publishing companies get paid for producing a book based on the authors work and they get a cut of the profits or paid for publishing, and sometimes advertizing for the author.
Same idea as movie is created. ( the original writer gets a portion).

My preference is to go Indy.
However, I have a synopsis for a movie script I want very much to see a collaborative team of all Indy cast and crew. It would involve just cast and crew, without a production company, managers, or other satellite personnel. So, $$$ would go to all directly involved, with no third party cuts.

But mostly I’m about making my own, only.

Quomodocunquize!

That’s the word at the tip of my tongue when I read this question originally. Only took me four days to think of it. Don’t think I’ve actually ever used it. But it sure is fun to say! (Try saying it ten times fast.)