We Talked To The Wire’s David Simon About The Writers Strike
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- Опубликовано: 11 май 2023
- David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says he’s on strike to protect new generations of writers and make sure they aren’t exploited by studios. He also explains how studios are cutting jobs to please shareholders and making TV shows almost impossible to run.
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Greed destroys everything. The people making the majority of the money are doing nothing. The people doing all the work are getting paid peanuts. Our values are entirely inverted.
Nailed it! It's that simple, and it's the cancer eating away at every single aspect of this country.
Damn right. And shit look how long it's been like this.
Just beyond strange.
I won't say owners and execs should get nothing, every job deserves some compensation, but the current arrangement is ridiculous.
Their damn greed never stops.
Guess that's the story of the world and every big business entity that ever existed.
Life is a constant fight against predatory selfishness and/or sociopathy - in government, in individuals, and in business.
It's a hell of a burden.
They're all around us- but we can't give up. We have to keep fighting that good fight.
That's not greed, it's just how capitalism works. The capitalists make most of the structural decisions and get most of the value, not the workers.
@@lcg3092 It's an unjust system in it's current form. THOSE WHO DO THE WORK AND PRODUCE THE GOODS DESERVE THE REWARDS, NOT THE PARASITES WHO DO NOTHING BUT SUCK OFF THEIR EFFORTS AND CLAIM THAT THEY DESERVE IT..... BECAUSE THEY WANT IT.
ITS THEFT BASICALLY.
ITS A SCAM. THE BIGGEST THAT EVER EXISTED.
@@lcg3092 YOU MEAN THE PARASITES??? THE SPONGES??? Sure they make a few decisions, someone has to- big deal. I fail to see how that entitles them to ALL OF THE MONEY considering they produce nothing.
ONE DAY LABOR LAW WILL PUT THE C-SUITE AND MOSTLY ORNAMENTAL NON-FOUNDING OWNERS* IN THEIR PLACE.
We will never stop fighting for Labor's rightful control rights and profits.
*I grant founding owners respect for their efforts in building their business but today all big corps have long transitioned into non-founding-owners' hands, where today's owners enjoy all the prestige and undeserved big bucks for doing a whole lot of being ornamental.
Corporations will squeeze the last drop of blood.
"There are three kinds of violence. The first, mother of all the others, is institutional violence, that which legalizes and perpetuates domination, oppression and exploitation, that which crushes and laminates millions of men in its silent and well-oiled wheels. The second is revolutionary violence, which arises from the desire to abolish the first. The third is repressive violence, the object of which is to stifle the second by making itself the auxiliary and the accomplice of the first violence, that which engenders all the others. There is no worse hypocrisy to call violence only the second, while pretending to forget the first, which gives birth to it, and the third which kills it." - Dom Helder Camara.
And yet, we continue to buy their junk, we, the poor, keep giving our pennies to the rich and people keep paying for the unadulterated garbage and nonsense on cable TV which keeps us dumb, stupid and away from the important issues that affect our lives. I was very happy when I closed my dishnetwork account and the amount of money I saved. Remember, whenever you spend your money on anything, you are supporting that business, that corporation, that cause, that corruption, that oppression, that enslavement, that inequality. So, think before you spend and/or keep your money.
My thoughts exactly
@@WanderingExistence Deep and also true
thats why we call them fascists
Creative work is incredibly undervalued.
EVERYTHING is undervalued by the money changers that control this society. From janitors and fast food workers to teacher, firemen, and police to technicians and engineers, it's all about exploitation of the many people that actually get the WORK done by the few people that manipulate them. Work harder and harder for less and less money while the fat cats at the top reap all the benefits of everyone's hard work. And they wonder why people are dropping out of the workforce at records rates.
When ai writes something like the wire ill pay attention. So far its really crappy and I really don't wanna see Arnold's face on Ferris Buehler....not interested.
As far as permanent capital is concerned .. all work is deliberately undervalued; that is the fundamental basis of capitalism.
Incredibly so..... it's cruelly squashed for money and dumb quick entertainment
@@darinsingleton3553 Labor is the predecessor of and the superior of capital.
What a well spoken person.
Well, he IS a writer after all.
Writing teaches you how to talk
@@mr.pavone9719 Not just a writer, he's also a journalist. Communicating is basically what his profession is. Love the guy.
well spoken, Oh a person that speaks in a well, no wait do you mean articulate ??? him do talk good, up i mean yeap!
@@relentlessmadman well-spoken
wĕl′spō′kən
adjective
Chosen or expressed with aptness or propriety.
Courteous in speech.
Speaking well; speaking with fitness or grace; speaking kindly.
Spoken with propriety.
Eloquent and able with regards to speech.
speaking or spoken fittingly or pleasingly
You can apply this to the Tech and Gaming industry. Those industries need this so badly too.
absolutely
Yeah, that's right
And vfx
It's happening in almost every industry in America. The name of the game is employing a skeleton crew of workers then wring out every ounce of productivity while compensating them as little as possible.
Late-stage capitalism is poisoning everything.
Who runs Hollywood??? Not the hard working individuals 🤷🏽♂️
These days its more Atlanta Metro than Hollywood. There is more content made in Atlanta area studios than in California
@@scpatl4now This strike is more for shows than movies. So that's false. Yes, Georgia surpassed CA for movie production, but it's still 3rd behind Cali & NY for series.
@@JuniperJupiter23 I don't know where you got that movies are not affected. They don't write themselves. Yes they are written before they go into production, but there are several that are in process of being written that have stopped. Plus, you ought to think about how you present your point. By dismissively stating something is false (when it isn't) you come across not so well. Btw, Georgia is the number one state for total filming in the country as of end 2022. It was 3rd in scripted TV in 2021, which is not now. Google it...I did.
@My New York City.
No, the insanely rich does.
And as always when too much wealth and power gets concentrated on the few, it creates catastrophes.
As multi-billionaires are just as interested in running and controlling every single aspect of whatever they own as any human would, they get bored with the details and outsources everything to experts with one simple direction.
"keep on doing what you did, but more, and make more money, invest, maximize and return every now and then and report"
Which results in those experts hiring expert investing advicers, vulture capitalist opportunists, economic strategists etc, and they have ONE standing order,
"keep on doing what you did, but more, and make more money, invest, maximize and return every now and then and report"
Which starts a deniable chain from expert advisors down to investments, ceo's, lobbyists, dark money, super pacs, deregulations resulting in worse working conditions and more of the bad stuff, this, is why i prefer when there are regulations and strong unions.
Child labour laws are being rolled back, check it out, please don't become disheartened, get angry and get unionized and get what your'e owed, a decent living, you deserve that.
Much love - Solo
@@SOLH-vq3lh "Child labor laws are being rolled back" indeed! Sarah Huckabee Sanders was one of the Republican Governors to sign a new State Law like that, recently. Education is under attack from Republicans as well, "odd" how that and child labor seem so connected. Also "odd" how Huckabee Sanders didn't find the time to talk about that when SHE was selected to give the rebuttal to Joe Biden's State of the Union Address. Sarah "only had time" to open with a "feel bad" story about herself, criticize Democrats with blanket statements, then close with another "feel bad" story about herself.
But no information, when she had a national audience, from (Arkansas) Governor Huckabeee Sanders on that Child Labor Law rollback. Rilly, rilly "odd".
I never understood why streaming services have seasons of shows that are 6 to 10 episodes. It always makes the story feel rushed and under developed (I'm looking at you Marvel Streaming). Now I know it's because they are to damned cheap to actually pay the writers for their work. Screw the streamers who wont pay for good writers to write good stories. I hope the writers play hardball and get what they need, because, we the consumers, well benefit as well if this ends up giving us more episodes that can actually tell complete stories.
You'll get two seasons of BS not worth investing your time into!!!
-Netflix
It is important to note that there are many shows around the world that use the 10 to 12 episode season format without the quality issues that we see here in the U.S. However, I do agree that most of the issue is pinching pennies.
Ya I totally agree!! Maybe not all short series suffer but it seems most I've seen I always end up going "well that had a lot of good points but jeez I kinda wish it was longer they kinda left a lot out"
Nearly all of Marvel's TV shows flopped (and they've tried many), so it's kind of understandable of why they are afraid to release a long first season for a new TV Show.
@@gallectee6032 Probably because of all of the interference from Disney.
Sort of similar situation with fast food, they are reducing staff and making the 3-5 workers take on like 3 other job sections at the same time
We don't just need unions we need cooperatives for profit sharing and co-ownership by the workers themselves! Here's how a cooperative has helped wages for its members in Cleveland, Ohio;
"In the 11 years since then, Evergreen Cooperatives has added three more cooperatives to its ranks, growing from two companies with a total of 18 workers in 2010 to five companies with approximately 320 workers. Those workers are paid 20 to 25 percent higher than employees at the cooperative’s competitors. “Our average pay rate is close to $15,” says John McMicken, CEO of Evergreen Cooperative Initiative. “But when you take profit sharing into account, which could equate to $4 to $5 an hour, we’re hoping that we have a shot at breaking the $20 an hour ‘blended rate,’ if you will.” In 2019, the average compensation at Evergreen Cooperative Laundry was around $18 per hour." - Despite a Rocky Start, Cleveland Model for Worker Co-ops Stands Test of Time, by Brandon Duong
Cooperatives also make sure to take care of their members during economic downturns, they get creative and find other jobs and will often cut upper management salaries to keep more people employed.
You need to make a clear distinction of what you mean by cooperative. There's 3 types of cooperative: consumer , worker and Hybrid. What you're talking about is a worker co-op or hybrid. A consumer one nearly devolves into a regular corporation or ends up being one. But it's still more democratic than a traditional business but consumers have more say. Hybrid is a blend of that, and worker owned.
This is true. For instance, Credit Unions are a type of consumer cooperative that need hybridization. Credit Unions are vital to building economic institutions that support common values of economic democracy, but they need protections for the workers, not just their finance members.
@@WanderingExistence agreed!
@@IndigiAutisi Solidarity 💪✊🏿
Why isn’t there a creative cooperative for streaming? I would 1000% pay for that. I would pay for quality writing from fairly paid writing talent
I love this mans work. Stand strong writers you are worth the compensation for your labor.
Wow, I'm not a writer or in any way connected to this business but I enjoyed listening to this guy all the to the end. And, that's very rare.
What I want to know, who the hell are those people that disliked this video. Bastards. Simon is a brilliant man and all his points are valid. WTF.
David Simon seems to always nail it.
This man’s solidarity needs to expand
Hopefully, to ALL workers.
It's only through Labor solidarity across the boards
that we stand a chance.
@@darinsingleton3553 I just realized that my comment can be interpreted in many ways. The speaker can expand his solidarity to other workers. But also, the general population should also exhibit the solidarity that he shows here
This guy's a real one
What can the consumer do to help? That’s my real question? Also how have our viewing habits disrupting their work. I the ant to know how we as consumers can show solidarity
Vote out Republicans
Well, boycotts never work because they need to be centralized and that also ends up hurting the workers here in the long run. Secondly, there's not a whole lot other than spread awareness to the fight for better wages. Everyone participates under capitalism. It wouldn't be right to judge someone based on their viewing habits. That attitude is a psyop brought on by conservative neoliberalism in order to keep distracting people away from class solidarity. If I'm missing anything, which I probably am, feel free to correct me.
Vote out any neo-liberal, republican or democrat. Vote in progressives.
Riot in the streets
Advocate for a general strike and revolutionary action against capitalism.
In the meantime...network with local leftist groups, do on the streets protests, etc.
Until workers of ALL stripes in ALL industries unite against our corporate overlords, nothing will change. Only a MASS worker stoppage across all industries, without allowing scabs to cross lines, will convince them that we actually do have power. This is why corporate powers work so hard to keep people divided. The last thing they want is everyone uniting against them.
Well said. This strike is for the people coming up in the industry.
Excellent definition and explanation of why there are/is a writers strike for us that are uneducated about it!!
And wanted to be more informed and educated! Thank you!!
This is across the board. In our shop is always the guys who build everything that take the layoffs, have stay late, work weekends, shift work, and make up and catch all the mistakes made upstream. And yet they think we are overpaid because anyone can turn a bolt of plug in a wire.
They feel what you do isnt as important as the logo on it and their massive manager bonus and salary.
Creativity is a human need, a human right, and a vital way humans connect with one another, and enrich each other’s lives. This problem is right down to the fact that the system of capitalism incentivizes companies to cut costs to as a way to make profit. And labor is always going to be hit first, as it’s the most expensive. The AI debate is really about how people who own these corporations, that have no idea what it takes to make a great story or do anything creative, want to further gut entertainment by replacing workers with algorithms. It’s sucks, it’s ruthless, and it will fail. Power to the writers!
creativity can be done by anyone. you dont need a college degree to write a book, or tell a story. like it or not writers are the first on the chopping block of jobs ai will do better. this is only the begining. it will get much moreadvanced. time to look for a real job.
He is right. AI doesn't create new stuff, just amalgamations of old stuff.
There's nothing new under the sun.
Young writers could not have a better advocate.
With what he's outlining in the beginning, it very succinctly explains why "nobody wants to work anymore" across many industries.
And with what he says about AI, it already feels like most network shows are written by AI.
It's crazy how every job is eithet overworked and under compensated or underworked thus undercompensated
We used to write shit in this country.
Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s AI bot
Frank Sobotka approves of this thread.
Even though I have never been the type of person to be interested in medical dramas or crime dramas, I agree with what David Simon said about why Artificial Intelligence can never replace regular writing jobs. I am more into writing comedies and kid stuff, so...The Emoji Movie and Space Jam: A New Legacy are both perfect examples of animated kids' films that are known for doing nothing original except for being soulless marketing tools for Sony and Warner Brothers. May 12, 2023, 3:02pm
Man, that's what solidarity look like, an it is a beautiful thing to behold.
I'll take solidarity over this stupid Ayn Rand-like "me me me and screw you" attitude that's being preached to a divided people whom ALL are very unlikely to be one of the top 1%, not just because it directly benefits me, but because it solidarity has style, it's beautiful, it builds bonds and bridges.
How stylish is a person after saying something like "nothing personal, it's just business"?
Or what is that person doing before or after saying that?
I have heard delusioned wealthy people complain about being "demonized" and then backing up whatever thing they did with
"But that is just the way business works!"
Perfect, it's like these neo-faschists nowadays, claiming everybody else being faschists for not platforming them, denying being faschist, but still spewing ALL the faschist/racist/nazi talking points, only difference is that they don't define themselves as such, because THESE ism's are synonymous with bad people, bad people doing bad things, i mean, you can't be the hero if your'e the faschist, just accept that you can't be grifting, lobbyist faschist with a nazi fan base and eat the little-guy-hero-uprising-cake at the same time,
THIS CAKE is ours. Go back to your Ayn Rand fanboys'n'girls and ask them for a slice of theirs, oh i forgot, YOU GUYS DON'T SHARE!
The 1% has A LOT, but they don't have solidarity, they don't have style, they don't truly have any culture worth a lick of spit and since they tend to surround themselves with yes-men, which is a poor substitute for someone who knows you got 20$ in your name but still calls you friend and when all of this is sorted out, we will remember solidarity and build a future where we sure as hell know that no matter what we face, we will face it together.
That's my two blood red cents, sentimental and all, straight from my heart, which anatomically is on the left.
Dave Simon is a genius
businesses should never be allowed to take on debt to buy other businesses. PERIOD.
first older guy I've heard say give the young a chance.
Just beautifully articulated, learned so much here.
Feels like things will get worse with the rise of AI. We scoff at it now, but soon it'll just take some exec punching in commands into a program to pump out a script; sure, the programs will have trouble initially, but it'll be the "wave of the future" according to these greedy executives. Also, I feel bad for VAs where newer contracts will contain/are containing clauses that the studio owns the right to the voice, being able to use AI to replicate the voice down the road as they wish.
Well, AI could pump out pointless stuff like the Batman v Superman script, but not something of substance.
I will watch absolutely any show David Simon does. Truly the best in the game.
Thankful for this boss a$$ journalist who is also a show creator, screenwriter, and showrunner.
I wonder how much private equity has to do with some of these companies. They sound like they are following the "wall st" model.
It seemed like he was describing almost every industry in the country, he's describing what happened to General Electric.
I like his take on AI, and it could be said of all generative AI in creative spaces: it's derivative. Derivative TV and movies are nothing new, humans have been doing it, but there's a reason the term is kind of a diss. As he put it here, "You need humans to say, 'here's something new I've never seen done before'."
Explains so much about why I hate American TV these days. We had a few years of goldne age of streaming before it went into the garbage because writers aren't there to actually hash out any story that makes it coherent. So many times the show runner does something that just comes off as so stupid, its because they are overworked and don't have anyone helping them. Makes so much sense now. Been on a silent boycott for the longest time. Might actually start enjoying shows again if they can get real writers in there who aren't burnt out.
Love this guy. Love his work. Sums everything up perfectly here.
Thabk you for this!
Insightful stuff!
lots of great insights in the problem here. this dude has always been great at finding important puzzle pieces and accurately diagnosing dysfunctionality
Great video
Treme and The Deuce still have yet to get their dues. The fact that they managed to make The Wire when they did, got away with it, and will never ever lose its appeal, is however, one of the greatest creative triumphs in modern times.
solidarity. yes.
Strong finish. 'I had a good run', 'but this strike is for them'. But tbh if you're fighting against the use of AI you need to not mention it as a 'tool' that can be used by writers. Even if you do still use it, that should not be part of your argument. Still, I #StandWithWriters
No wonder a lot of shows in the past few years suck in quality. You compromise the writing staff, then you get garbage shows at the end.
Great stuff. Very intelligent guy
And when the FED NOW comes online, it's gonna get WORSE for EVERYBODY. HOW LONG will the MASSES take it?
The man that created America’s greatest work of art/fiction/literature.
The greatest tv show ever conceived.
The bar for preventing strikes is so very, very low. Pay your people. Not a heavy lift. No one's asking you to be a saint.
#strongerunions are the ONLY way to combat the monopolies of today. We are literally doing what our ancestors were doing 100 years ago in the 1920s, striking against the second gilded age
Great video.
Preach
So right about AI.
Amazingly said! And exactly how i think of AI right now.
I am still mad Treme ended so fast.
I wonder if this is why despite all the visual increases in production quality, the writing and scripts of these modern pieces of entertainment just seem boilerplate and basic.
CLUTCH interview! Fantastic!
I like this guy.
One of the complaints, the proliferation of short-term work, has been the standard in TV industries around the world. Australia, UK, Europe; series are rarely longer than 6-10 episodes. How does it work in those markets? Is it a simple case of America's special brand of worker exploitation or have there always been the same issues there? I find that hard to believe. Is there a practice to be adopted?
If you listen to that part of the video again, it's not just about the length of television seasons, but about the length of time that a writers' room is staffed - not only do shorter seasons mean you're working for fewer weeks than on a longer season even if it's still a traditional writers' room, they're also doing "mini rooms" where they only hire writers for a month or so to brainstorm ideas and storylines, then get just one or two writers on staff to actually write the scripts.
Didn't the last season of GoT go down the tubes because the show runners were doing too much?
so now these writers are feeling what millions of other workers have known for 20 years .. the world changes jobs go away and they are unwilling to face the new reality .. they want money like they got before but they technology and compensation have moved on .. why are they any different than a factory in iowa ??
Writers were always the ones in Hollywood that got fucked over, because of producers, actors and directors. They strikes probably more than all of them combined.
Wise man. Great writer!
Late stage neoliberalism is now commodifying the final aspects of life while privatizing everything (putting more and more power into the hands of corporations, who already have the vast majority of power), using gig economy templates to skirt overhead costs and giving employees benefits. It has gotten to the point where even extremely liberal industries like Hollywood and Academia have gone through a process of neoliberalization that has made work conditions untenable. Capitalism is predicated on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources, which obviously will not work long term, and also is an economic system that has been historically built upon theft. Whether that's the theft of labor and value produced by housework (patriarchy), the trans-atlantic slave trade (white supremacy), the expropriation of surplus value produced by workers (who produce almost all of the value) which results in the vast majority of value going into the pockets of corporate executives, upper management, and the main share holders (who are the 1%), and our project of empire, which demands imperialism and endless wars to fuel it, is another giant ponzi scheme where Americans tax money is taken and given to military industrial complex executives and share holders (while very little is provided to the people). These wars also allow our corporations and financial institutions access to other nations' capital and resources after the invasion and even if we don't invade you we use mechanism's like predatory lending through institutions like the IMF and World Bank to provide leverage to force hesitant nations to neoliberalize and allow our corporations to get the contracts. This didn't even cover the resources stolen through the xenophobic and white supremacist projects of colonialism and indigenous genocide. Capitalism is a mafia economic system as well as a form of gangsterism, in that it is built on theft. Neoliberalism is its late stage form, and therefore the most sophisticated in its predatory and parasitic behavior.
This is a perfect example of a fractal of knowledge and truth 💥🔥🌌
"So you're not growing the future"
The film & TV industry is simply appalling to work in, an average 12 hour day not including travel either side, brutal shooting schedules & line producers (those are the people whom hire you) attempting to get you on set for woefully poor rates, maniacal ego maniac directors & actors throwing their toys out of the pram etc, etc. It’s impossible to actually have a life or indeed actually pay for said life if you’re in the lower echelons of departments. My advice, avoid with all costs, it’s abusive, exploitative & ultimately completely unrewarding as nobody wants to work on indie/low budget projects but all of the big budget dross in order to work with the more skilled technicians (as all of those folk work in the big budget shit for the paydays).
it's ridiculous, these writers are like a Mcdonald's worker demanding they get paid every year for every burger they made 40 years ago. That's what residuals are, it pays pretty good for doing something once and continually being paid for it for the rest of your life;
Toute ma solidarité envers l'un des plus grands artistes américains contemporains. Honte à HBO!
Rich people are determined to keep all the money, even if it kills us.
Where have you gone, Mr. Robespierre?
Brutal working-conditions. It just doesnt pay off.
❤ Writers ❤ 🇺🇲⚖️🇺🇲
That FACT that these companies pay so much for old shows is just a transfer of wealth. 100 Mil for friends, 500 Mil for Seinfeld, 900 Mil for South Park. None of these shows are worth that amount of money. This is why prices keep getting bumped up!!!
This is part of the problem with the all-but-infinite copyright length pushed by the very studios now trying to fuck everyone over. Seinfeld ended 25 years ago, Friends 19. Formerly, you'd have copyright on them, their characters, everything expiring only a few years from now, and several years *ago* were they not renewed. Today? Copyright on those and their contemporaries will last for *decades* more, and won't expire until sometime in the 22nd century with the way things are going. They won't be relevant that long. They're hardly relevant now. But if you even thought to pitch a slightly similar show, or a new take on the idea, to any of the studios but the owners, you'd be laughed at, and the owners would just say "or we could just rerun Friends". No one's watching those reruns except for the tired old farts looking to relive their college age glory years in the 90's. And for what? So the kids of the people who had the ideas can supposedly be "set for life"? The people who had the ideas aren't even set for life - it's the executive class who steal the bread from the mouths of the writers, directors, crew, and actors who are set for *multiple* lifetimes.
This is why everything sucks nowadays.
Perfectly Stated
ADR: automated dialogue replacement (cool)
television ??? been watching it since i was 6, cant't stand to watch it any more! seen all the cop lawyer Doctors familly sitcoms, nothing else seems to exsist plus the advertsing time has gone from three minutes per hr. to 13 minutes/hr! I have more interesting things to do with my time< television/ all entertainment is just a distraction from life, wehn I am to tired to do something creative, and need to sit that is when I turn it on
You gotta keep the devil way down in the hole…
Studio execs versus storytellers? I'm betting on the storytellers.
We've been fed crap for the last decade, so sadly no one will notice a change
Ineffable results of Capitalism
The writing on TV these days is so terrible. I finally figured out why.
I support the writers but, frankly, I also wish they hadn't been such a willing partner to corporate power over the past decades. I wished they had not helped distract and dumb down the population. Writers and storytelling are vital: but what a wretched story has been told. Glorification of mammon, elevation of revenge and violence, delivery of shock and gore, mockery of the meek, enforcement of hierarchy, admiration of brutality as strength. Maybe tell a different tale and new paths could be open. Just my opinion. I'm just not interested in what's coming out of corporate entertainment today.
Eh, that sort of thing was coming out of past shows much more than present day ones. Certainly there's still plenty of thought-terminating and hierarchy-reinforcing propaganda writing out there, but there's tons of fantastic deconstructive critiques of entrenched power systems as well -- David Simon's own works being a good example, but more have been popping up recently. Even modern mostly lighthearted sitcoms like Abbot Elementary are joining the trend.
How does one survive if one cannot earn their bread. These are people and they need to earn a living in this capitalist dystopian nightmare we all Earth. It's the people in power who are the real criminals. Not the writers who just have to survive and if that means writing garbage cop shows such as Blue Bloods then, that's what they have to do.
*The reason I consider Blue Bloods and other cops shows garbage is because.. well, George Floyd is dead. Tamir Rice is dead. These shows are lies. They may be very pretty lies but they are lies. This is what we hope our cops aspire to be rather than what we know they are.
Look at how the powerful stifle our voices. The conservative Christians engaged in government censorship of our art. This is why you get the silly twin beds in a married couple's bedroom. This is why any depiction of interracial relationships was forbidden. Everyone had to play along and sneak in any subversive elements if possible. Even now, conservatives love to stifle and censor our words and art. We are not allowed to depict humanity in those they deem to be subhuman. We're not allowed to adapt older stories and have POC actors and actresses because suddenly, they see color and suddenly they want historical authenticity. (Though Disney needs to stop this live adaptation. It's such a cheap derivative and uncreative money making cash grab.)
*yes, conservatives claim they want historical or cultural authenticity but it's a lie. They want something that flatters their "glorious self-image" and that's why they have these toddler tantrums. They can't handle the dirty past. They're overgrown neurotic monkeys.
what if...you know...what if you work for the entire year like the rest of the people?
amore perfect union! ?????? wait a more perfect banding together to improve everyones life!
Soon they will have the AI writing the play then.... the AI will come in and watch it!
I just wonder how the AI evolution theory will look like? In the beginning on a beach a grain of sand melt under the sun and become the first transistor and from there the AI evolution start...
AI will write the script and then people stop watching because it's the same show over and over
Growth economy. Feh.
Strike while you can.We tested some ai writer and they good. Even they still need keep continue training for some years next but sure they can help save alot of salary that use to pay writers later.
The same commodification or what have you that has degraded literature into a bunch of YA vampire dystopic derivative garbage and has basically destroyed poetry, painting and sculpture, as well as turned music into the cloned pop crap that all sounds the same has taken its toll on movies and TV and turned it into a bunch of simple, boring, derivative, effect driven fluff. Art is dead.
Capitalism destroys art. Greed destroys all.
Watch as they use AI chats to replace these striking folks altogether
Watch their ratings tank
or do the writing the india, or bring in H1B trash to replace them
they 'deserve' a career !! what does that mean .. ?? who then doesn''t deserve one ?? the idea that these people are so special with elite degrees makes one wonder what they were doing when others lost their jobs .. did they strike in sympathy ?? wha wha i deserve a career ...
writers and starbucks workers are about 1 billionth in line for the list of jobs that need union protection. spitting in the faces of warehouse workers who are breaking backs and tearing ligaments physically hauling and lifting things but these are the stories you show us
Then you bring a camera to them. We aren't enemies. Some of us even have crossover.
One of the turnoffs is filler episodes, you’re not really progressing the story. So what’s the point of watching this episode?
Mind you, in this capitalist economy, viewerships per episode that are under 1 million, under 100k, your show basically sucks. That’s not good for business long term and short term.
Look at avatar, introducing a female main character for the sake of diversity, the story sucks. She doesn’t fit in the story. People prefer the old avatar than the new one.
And, I will leave it with this: There’s a difference between giving AI to a socialist and a capitalist. One of them will use AI to improve society and the other will use it to make as much money as possible.
From slavery farming to industrialized farming. From cashiers to self checkouts.
From assembly worker to automated assembly. What you’re seeing is AI and automation replacing low skill jobs. And that’s a good thing. AI and automation is slowly reducing human EXPLOITATION.
This is an opportunity to change careers from low skill jobs to a higher skill higher paying jobs. And with AI and automation, also creates new jobs, new careers.
America desperately needs socialism....
He's standing in front of a truck and you want me to take writer's seriously? How out of touch. Writing isn't a real job and hardly an art form.
So you've never watched a movie or series
@@Melnokina.-. no ma'am would you please teach me. I require training and nourishment. Menudo only no posole.
@@williamroberts1819 no need for sarcasm. These people have to work 2 jobs to keep afloat. A lot of us use these shows as a form of therapy snd to relax. The writers deserve better pay. Did you know they've cut how much they've been paid in the last 10 years by 23%?
@@Melnokina.-. I had to work many miles as a trucker. Will you be my codriver?
@@williamroberts1819 what does that have to do with anything? All jobs are important
Subtitles spelled homicide "homocide". Would AI have made that mistake?
Raise the wages NOW, or face the Revolutionary General Strike🎳 LATER. People are angry and frustrated😔😫😤 by the day😢
Well, I don't think anyone deserves a career. In the end TV is dying so it is only normal they fight for an ever shrinking pie. The US shows killed shows in most other countries so it comes as a shock to them that their time has come. Now we have RUclips and Vimeo and videogames and audiobooks, plenty of mediums to consume a good story and TV's time is up. Writing is free now, we no longer accept the monopoly of the TV producing clique to decide who gets to become a writer or a producer, like the writers for Homicide decided this man will have a future in writing while many others likely didn't. He was lucky, but the writers of today don't have a future not because they're not kept on the show longer, they don't have it because they work in an industry with no real future and they should use the time to branch out.