Class Envy is Pointless
My wife and I were talking yesterday and I told her that the cast of one of our favorite television shows, Modern Family , made $1 million per episode. I was wrong. They only make $350K. I had an epiphany. My wife said "that's way too much money". One the surface, it seems to be, but, I wondered: who am I to say how much someone else's skill set is worth? Sure, it seems easy to be a film and television actor-- especially when one is on a show as successful as Modern Family . But is it? Actors work long days, they give up the anonymity most of us enjoy. How would you like going out to dinner and not being able to speak with your wife or husband because a fan keeps coming up to you with a pen, pad and camera asking for just a second of your time? How would you like going to the park or the beach with your family and having to chase off photographers? Yes, that's the price they pay for fame and that's why many of them have such extravagant homes... they spend