Like the heads of other businesses are telling the truth?

An essential to making money is to make it on the labor of others. The rules of capitalism state that the money goes to the person who risks the capital.

The reason others in the entertainment fields are no longer exploited is a combination of longer careers and UNIONS. Unions can act as a counter balance to capital. Having experienced people to rely on can help to avoid the repeat of mistakes.

I have been on both sides.

I was an officer with a large internet company before my current illness. Did we tell the staff our true financial position? Of course not. Did we make them sign off on work policies that were solely to our advantage? Of course we did. Is this common practice in business? You know the answer.

When I consulted, if they asked me if I had say computer admin services, I would negotiate a price like $75 per hour with someone I knew who needed extra work. I would then pay him as a 1099 on my books and BILLED THE SERVICES AT $125! I made $50 an hour on HIS WORK, but I did not get paid immediately and I risked not getting paid [in my situation it wasn't a risk].

Before this during my tenure as a Delegate to the NYC Central Labor Council, we fought situations where young men & women in their teens worked for weeks at long hours and no benefits only NOT to be paid THEIR MINIMUM WAGES by corrupt bosses who would establish, drain and bankrupt one company after another.

None of these teens had $75k contracts or $1000 bucks for a days work for a scene, or a fist full of twenties after a night dancing.

What these women need is proper representation and financial management for their short careers by able advisors [which I assume they don't have and will not be having].

Do these girls have agents? Shouldn't they help with this?

But then again, Agents are probably bigger liars than Producers.