![]() To even type that phrase seems somehow blasphemous. Robots on assembly lines and tractors on farms is one thing no one has yet seen the automation of creation. This battle is soon to be about the future of human endeavors writ large-about the future of human work. In 2023, this fight is about the future as well, but not just the future of writers and not just the future of the casts and crews who work with us. The future happened just as the seers at the Writers Guild of America foresaw. But at the time, no one knew what the future held and the studios were adamant that they shouldn’t be beholden to an undefined pay structure of the future. In hindsight that’s about the most obvious thing you can think of-ahem, Netflix, Apple, Amazon, Peacock, Disney Plus, Max. Writers wanted to get paid for the content they created that was then streamed. The last writers strike in 2007 was about the internet. ![]() ![]() Because the truth is that this fight is about nothing less than the future of human work. I can talk ad nauseam about the minutiae of ending mini-rooms and the value of two step deals and all the other things my union is fighting for, but then inevitably I get the polite nudge: ‘Yeah, but what is it really about?’ And that’s when things get real simple, real fast. ![]() They’re asking genuinely and I respond in kind. When I talk to folks back east, the farmers I grew up with or the marketing execs I went to college with, they ask what the heck is going on out there in Hollywood. ![]()
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