I keep thinking of how a big part of the WGA strike involved the companies blocking writers from gaining the skills they needed to be showrunners in the future (or just learn the tricks that would reduce production costs). Hollywood has always tried to externalize costs (by making writers, etc. take them on), but this was just a wholesale destruction of their own future to save a few pennies now; there isn’t some other way that writers would pick up those skills “elsewhere.” Very “end-stage capitalism” in that they’re not counting on there being anything beyond the present moment (and even assuring that will be the case) .
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