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The Writers Strike Ruined my life
Removed by modI am legit penniless and moving after a full decade in the industry, because the bougiest union thought they deserved to be upper class rather than middle class. I actually hate these people and their status driven desires to own homes in the nicest neighborhoods of NY and CA. To have their kids in private school with the producers kids. O it’s hard in Cobble Hill?
The writers strike ruined the industry and moved so much work to Canada, England, and Korea. I have no skills outside film production and I am going from middle class to homeless for the worst people who write Blue Bloods and Jimmy Fallon jokes. I fucking hate writers and they are all pieces of shit.
Craft unionism is not bringing about socialism, it’s bringing about different hierarchies and desires between jobs. The Wobblies were right about everything. I fucking hate you writers. You are closer to the producers than just about anyone on set. You are fucking country club shits. I hope you all get stuck writing cop shows forever you fucking trash
Wobblies wanted one big union so everyone could negotiate together, and strike together. Craft unions, like on a film set, lead to separate contract negotiations between different departments every year. In 2021 my union was pushed to not strike by other unions for the “guilt” of stopping work. 2 years later the WGA and SAG decided stopping work was fine.
It's pretty clearly a divide and conquer strategy from what you're describing. The writers are working class, but if you can get them to believe they're special and not like the other workers, the allure of elitism plays right into the hands of capital. Americans still seeing themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Idk where this idea of elite writers came from, just like the actors, you have a handful of rich assholes and a legion of invisible people who are just unionized film workers. If it was a purely strategic criticism, sure, but the moral angle feels strange