Dissenting views of Writer's Strike

Some good points. I'm not sure where I stand on this.

[T]he writer these days is less an artist who breaths creation, and more a functional part that through training adds their element, just like costume creators and make up artists. Should the Disney designer who designed Captain Jack Sparrow get 5c of every action figure made? Unless writers are selling their own original story (like Millar on wanted) then they’re just work for hire, and know what they’re getting into. If it is their own stuff, then that’s down to the deal they strike up front. The reason Marvel doesn’t pay as well as the independents is that Spidey will sell 100k copies because of it’s installed base as much as anything else. Just as my sales guys can sell $5mil because the company spent 100 years building up the brand and establishing an installed base.