Great piece on the existential threat faced by TV & film writers. It’s a familiar story: low interest rates, private equity, execs squeezing workers. “The general sense is that you’re an absolutely fungible widget… It is fucking broken.”
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This was great, probably the first thing I've read that really nails what's been going on. I particularly like the bit at the end stating how this can be reigned in if the US gvmt just enforces existing laws. None of this is inevitable.
And all this is happening in what was a brief golden age of a lot of production thanks to streaming mania.
Of course, Hollywood and show biz is rife with careers that briefly explode and then, well, fade to black or close to it.
Too: like everywhere else in the commercial arts, the big bucks is for the superstars while everyone else gets comparative peanuts or loss.
It's all crazy...
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