Rampant_baconator

This is a good point that not a lot of people realize. I'm an assistant director and a lot of people think working actors are overpaid. But you have to think about the fact that a working actor can attend hundreds of UNPAID auditions in a year and maybe book 1-2 spots. SAG is greedy, but they have to make sure that actors can actually pay bills despite vastly limited opportunities.

Exactly. When you pay for the skills of a master of their craft, you aren't paying them for the literal time they spend helping you, you're paying them for a lifetime of devotion to becoming a master of their craft.