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Post by Jablea on Aug 18, 2020 23:12:54 GMT -5
There is no reason to run for the hills, but I think it is important to understand that Germany has a very different system of government. Parliamentary democracy operates such that multiple parties can elect local representatives to national government and if no party has a majority, they can exercise their local power to negotiate preferred outcomes with other parties even going as far as to influence who is the party leader. National leadership, such as the country's President, is not voted for directly and in a coalition government is still somewhat beholden to other parties. This gives third party voters some hope that their political positions will have influence and can encourage change. Merkel is beholden to her coalition. If you grew up in this system then it is not unreasonable to approve of building power as a smaller party by voting and using that power to influence national policy. But, the US president, which is a very powerful position, is not chosen this way and our country is very strongly two party. Third party votes, therefore, more often than not, are spoiler Presidential votes. When a third party strongly favors one side of the political spectrum or the other, but is small in comparison to the dominant party, then a third party vote is likely to have the opposite outcome and get the opposition President elected. This can be devastating if the elected President is completely opposed to the third party's platforms and initiatives. A Green party vote in 2016 was essentially a vote for 45 and his climate policy has been devastating. The best scenario for a third party in the US system is to exercise their voting power in Congress or at state and local level. AOC is a perfect example. But for President, a third party vote is best thought of as a pre-coalition vote. Who would your party likely combine with to form a national government. Vote for the leader of that party in advance and directly for preferred down ballot candidates. marionm , I hope I don't sound too pendantic. You're not pendantic...i'm being childish and not letting it go. For me the Problem lies in the flaud system and not in the third Party voters. It's just hard for me fathom, that a democracy has such a heck of a system. Just to put that out there. The American voting system violates almost all of the election principals of Germany. America helped write a lot of the constitutions and voting laws in some countries that became democracies after us such as Japan. I don't think there's many that copied us because they've seen how our system locks us into two parties. It would take a constitutional amendment to make changes that would give third parties a chance and our last one was first proposed in 1789 (not a typo) and not ratified until 1992. www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/amendments/27/essays/189/congressional-compensation
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Post by lurleene on Aug 19, 2020 0:06:46 GMT -5
What am I missing? Does that seem low? 14.4 from the N/A portion of the Rhapsody Tour? It does seem low. That would have to be after the promoters etc are paid. And past googling articles indicate they could be 40 percent-- or whatever percentage deal they negotiate. It would be very interesting to have an actual breakdown of the profit for the QAL tour from 30ish concerts. A chart had each concert averaging around 1.6 or 1.7 million. Some were higher some 1.4 million. I have no clue how the financial part of touring works (but would love to learn). I would think from their profits they have to pay ALL the expenses for production, creation, travel and salaries. But I do not know how they structure their deals ---what does the the promoter pay for beyond advertising, ticket arrangements, venue, and staff, limos and many thing I probably know nothing about. What is the percentage on concessions etc? I bet every tour, every site, with different promoters is a darn logistical, financial nightmare. LOL I always look at it as--- what would Adam make per show. A percentage? A flat 150,000.00? (not counting in merch) He has far fewer responsibilities than Roger and Brian. The artistic design and staging he is very much a part of ...but on a day to day basis, I would suspect he had little to do with the management of the tour, and staff. ---Show up and sing his heart and lungs out! add in--- The Australia and New Zealand 2020 era with stadiums...and huge numbers... well that is where percentages or double triple the payment would definitely be how salaries are decided. More money-- with fewer performances-- perfect! Ha! I wasn't even going to try to figure the cost of things that I know nothing about or how much Adam makes. I'm sure he is paid handsomely. But I was more wondering what the reporting period covered. Sometimes a tour could be broken down in more than one time period. But they only said US 2019 without saying how many shows were reported in the time frame covered. When Forbes would report, they would say what period it covered (like June 2018 to May 2019). Sometimes Adam's solo tour would not all fall under one period. Some shows would be reported in one year and the rest in another depending on the break. Oh well we only saw a few of their box scores reported and they were making good money from those we saw so all is well, lol.
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