Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> >"The necessity of having some
> >pesky man who has to actually create the
> >thing that you do is really a thorn in the side of
> >producers. They loathe paying writers."
>
> Oh, yeah. In my travels through the TV world, I heard this all the time.
> Many producers and execs, and the mega-corps that rule them, despise
> creatives, when not acting as if they are creatives themselves. Listening to
> some dickhead suit talk about the "mysteries" of writing makes you want to
> slug him -- that is, if he's not paying you.
>
> The corps are trying to turn writers into slave laborers, when they deign to
> employ them at all. The WGA must win this strike.
We get closer and closer (or in math terms approach as a limit) to _pure_ capitalism every year -- i.e., to the _complete_ commoditization of everything (which of course is impossible -- but they keep trying).
Carrol