Cast of Jersey Shore To Get Pay Raise, World Ending

Talk about depressing news first thing Monday morning.  According to Popeater, the eight primary members of the cast of the Jersey Shore will be getting a pay raise (beginning next season: season 4) to $100,000 per episode, for a 13 episode season.  Basically Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, Ron, Sam, Jwoww, Snooki, Pauly D, Vinny, and Angelina... ahem... I mean, Deanna have all just become millionaires for doing nothing more than GTL'ing and getting drunk at Karma multiple nights a week.  Let me reiterate: the cast of the Jersey Shore will each make nearly 1.5 million USD for about 2 months of hanging out.  This, in itself, is not an unusual amount of money for a hit show (actually, it's almost the standard), but it is a lot considering the size of the cast that stands to benefit.  If there are any young people reading this, forget about your parents' brainwashing.  Don't go to school.  Spend all of your time at the gym and tanning so you can get a reality show and be rich, since that's obviously the surest route for success in this country.  I met a history PhD in his forties a couple weeks ago, nice guy, but guess what?  This very intelligent gentleman, with all of his years of hard work and education, was working at Starbucks and making minimum wage.  I'm just sayin'.

I can only assume that Jwoww, Snooki, and Pauly D will be getting even more than the raise noted above for their spin-off shows.