Here's an article that offers some perspective on the fight by the Simpsons voice cast for better pay. Two things you should always remember about such disputes: One is that the demands and responses are always posturing and exaggeration. If and when they settle, it will be a compromise. Secondly, the money we're talking about here is a share of the profits. The money the actors don't get paid is money that the studio gets to keep…and even pay out in bonuses to people who have less to do with the show's success than the actors. It does not go to widows and orphans.