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This is a very off-brand comment but I wonder how many of these writers took a Lyft to work and got lunch from Uber Eats, enjoying the benefits of someone else’s job being turned into a gig, never considering that the Tech Bros were coming for them next.
Not so relevant, but I definitely hope for the return of taxis and regulated employee benefits / hire rates.
That would make sense if taxis weren’t basically a mafia-like organization in most places.
Here, the taxi drivers are the absolute worst. They drive worse than student drivers. They don’t give two shits about the customers - if you order a taxi and they find someone more convinient hailing them they’ll just pick up that person and never come to pick you up with no notice. They can’t follow basic GPS directions from their device and you often have to guide them.
The taxi companies send any complaints directly into the shredding machine. They have a legally enforced monopoly over a region and customers have no choice.
And I’m talking about a major city in America.
There is definitely a healthy middle ground, but just going back to taxis is not the solution.
A lot of the article is focusing the writers getting less access, but the flipside is that show runners are increasingly getting burnt out.
From the show runner’s perspective, they used to get a writing staff that could handle production issues on set so that the show runner could handle the larger scale issues. Now, the staff that would help them is no longer there and the show runner never got other staff to supplement the loss of the writers. This is causing a lot of additional work for show runners, and the savings of the labor isn’t going to the show runner.
Minimum staffing requirements during production isn’t just meant to help writers learn to be show runners, but to give show runners staff to help with production.
That’s a lot to say greed by executives are, once again, destroying the people that actually make the money in the enterprise.
Slave driving ain’t easy but well compensated executives got to do it… Audience gets shiti shows, workers get paid less with less benefits.
All around win win win for investors and execs.
This has been evident from interviews with Tony Gilroy about Andor - he assumed he’d be directing episodes (it’s common for showrunners to direct the first and last episode, at least) but realised it wasn’t feasible given how much he had to do as showrunner.
So every season is now losing a bit of authorial vision too.
Tv will soon be written and acted by AI/CGI. So much for the future being about leisure while the AI handles the boring shit- seems like art and creativity will be the fist casualties of this boneheaded idea that we will be better off under an automated society.
Well let’s tsee them do it…
Current state of teevee is pathetic as is due to how production is handled.
I doubt AI trained on that trash can make it any better.
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Have you ppl tried NovelAI? It’s a piece of shit that still needs a writer and editor to use effectively.
This is big media minimizing writers/labor to squeeze more profits and bigger bonuses for executive and investors.
