The debate faded a little as other industry inequalities took the spotlight, but it still smoulders on,, and reignited recently by Daniel Radcliffe and Scarlett Johansson.
But the "resource curse" that afflicts many mineral-rich, particularly oil-rich, nations reducing incentives to develop other industries, exacerbating inequality as élites hog oil rents and fail to build a strong individual-income-tax base began to hit Venezuela hard in the eighties and nineties.
The result is what we might call, if the analogy were not a little grotesque, entertainment-industry income inequality.
There are a few notable exceptions to the rule: Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer and Google's Susan Wojcicki have reached top roles in tech, despite the industry's inequality.
"In every topic of the housing crisis that we're experiencing, San Francisco comes up," said Buri. "Landlords use it to highlight what they perceive as the evils of rent control, and tenants use it to show how the tech industry and inequality has really exacerbated the rental housing crisis".
With respect to inter-industry income inequality in transitional China, many studies attend to the special role that state power plays in the process of market transition.
Within the visual arts (to make an example of my own industry), gender inequality is staggering.
As a feminist artist and as a woman leader in the male-dominated tech industry, gender inequality is something I discuss openly at home with my daughter.
As long as men dominate media coverage, label rosters, festival bookings, and mentorship/management positions in the industry, this inequality will continue to feed itself: a vicious cycle that never stops repeating.
First, industrial monopoly has been singled out as one of the main forces affecting income inequality across industries; however, monopolized industries differ from other industries in many other important aspects.
