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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
I'm honestly almost at the point where I think all labor activism in the core is reactionary. Better pay for Amazon workers is probably just gonna compel their suppliers to accelerate exploitation in the periphery. Why organize my work place when an extra dollar an hour here just means some 14 year old in a sweatshop in Bangladesh is probably gonna have to start pulling 16 hour shifts.
Fuck it, I'm happy when labor aristocrats feel the squeeze.
Hollywood has been extensively financialized over the past few decades. Just like the other industries, once finance capital is finished with hollowing out the core and stripping everything down to the bones, they simply jump ship and latch on to the next industry to parasitize. No incentives to keep an industry well developed and sustained. It’s all pump and dump to make quite profits and for the line to go up.
Boeing, Intel, Cisco and many other once world leading American corporations all went through this, and Hollywood is no exception.
This is the price America has to pay for its ability extract vast amount of surplus value from the Global South simply through printing money - its own deindustrialization. But it’s the working class that gets screwed, never the wealthy class.
A couple years ago Hexbears lambasted me for not being angry about the railroad strike. I said from my experience in my union we were barely an institution let alone a left wing institution. Most of my brothers were fucking fascists who were slowly taking control of the executive board seat at a time.
Op would be a labor aristocrat here fyi, I’m down for a single standard of fuck all workers in the imperial core, but not “those workers are bad and I’m good”