Coming from the photojournalism side of things, I worry less about my hardware than the shot. I've never had to worry about getting that "one" shot because in the back of my mind I was worried about dinging my camera.

It's all just hardware. I've always used Canon because they're relatively less expensive and cheaper to repair in various parts of the World.

Also, from what I'm hearing Nikon now requires all bodies be sent to them for repair bypassing the local repair shops.

I always looked much better with my large format camera.  That black cover did wonders for my appearance.

Whenever I put deodorant on, why don't I look like that ripped guy on the commercial ?

If it helps, no one on the set was forced to accept unfair minimum wage,

Min union scale maybe.

But not the intolerable min wage.