I 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

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    sorry mate this ain't it

    why on earth would you think that writers aren't getting fucked by the same people/processes that are fucking you?

    your enemy isn't the writers, it's capital. nothing happened as a result of this strike that capital wasn't going to do anyway

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      nothing happened as a result of this strike that capital wasn't going to do anyway

      That's not really true, think about it. Differences in wages and workers' rights cause capital flight all the time. Capital wouldn't have chosen to offshore all the film industry this decade had it not been for the particular economic circumstances that arose from the strike. That's cause and effect, there was not much other reason for Hollywood to break down this way. You could at best argue that the writers were only one of many things that potentially could've caused the same chain of events.

      • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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        4 days ago

        oh come on, if it hadn't been the writers it would have been the next union that stood up for itself

        this is "it's the union's fault when management moves the plant to Mexico" thinking and I am shocked to see it so upbeared here

      • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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        4 days ago

        But those differences were there before the strikes? Production was already moving overseas. Yes, it was accelerated by the strikes, but the wage differentials were already there. The strikes didn’t make anything happen that wasn’t going to happen anyways

    • Dr_Gabriel_Aby [none/use name]
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      4 days ago

      Feeling someone deserves more and having a shit fucking plan to solve it are two different things. We don’t need to be romantic about this

      The writers pushing for the strike were the ones who could make bank on residual payment on streaming, not the ones struggling to find work.

      2021 and 2022 were peak years in the industry. Cutbacks happened to time out exactly with the WGA pushing to strike. Scripts were saved and shelved to be produced somewhere else, because writers have no control over the industry.