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

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    1 month 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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      1 month 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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      1 month 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