In one of my two 'day jobs' I worked for Bell Telephone. They asked for suggestions, and I gave them a design for a new terminal that would be easier to work on plus quicker and less costly to maintain. They were awarding $2K for a suggestion that they used (in the 1960s that was a lot of money).

They thanked me for the suggestion, told me it wasn't anything they wanted to use.

A year later, I started seeing a slight modification of my terminal all over the place. Within a year it was in every apartment building. I never got a penny. But I still got my hourly wage.

Second 'day job' was as a field engineer for a manufacturer of Cable TV gear. We had to sign a form stating that anything we develop while employed by the company or for 5 years after belonged to the company and they would have sole rights to any patents, even if I developed it at home.

Neither day job lasted long, I am a musician in my blood.

BTW, book authors get the same treatment as musicians. If you are a star you make big bucks, if not, the publisher makes it all.

The art gallery gets more of the sale price than the artist in most cases.

The studio musicians go in for a price, and the studio pays them the price they agreed on. The price works on supply and demand of a-list players who can get the job done in one take and the potential revenue the company sees.

A good studio musician who was in the right place at the right time with the right skills made a lot of money.

Most big corporations have the power to make most of the money while they share only as much as they have to with the workers. And that includes artists. It's just the way corporations work.

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