system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Right it’s a week long contract at most and they often pay a few thousand.

The “starving artist” trope is from the inconsistency of the work not the pay.
gpt
Because you still have to be a halfway decent actor for those. The worst actors bounce around "paid in exposure gigs" until they quit.

And a side note, actors also have one of the most powerful unions behind them.