A closer look
Robin Williams explicitly agreed to voice the Genie in Disney's Aladdin for the absolute minimum union scale of seventy-five thousand dollars, on the strict condition that his voice would not be used to aggressively merchandise products like toys and fast food meals. Disney executives naturally broke that specific contractual promise almost immediately, utilizing his iconic frantic comedy to sell massive amounts of corporate garbage to easily manipulated children. To make amends for stabbing a beloved comedian in the back and generating hundreds of millions in pure profit off his stolen labor, the massive entertainment conglomerate famously tried to buy his forgiveness by sending him a very nice Picasso painting, because apparently, billionaires think art solves basic contract fraud
