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Given the explicit "we'll just wait for them to lose their housing" messaging from the Hollywood executives... Good on SAG-AFTRA. This can only increase the bargaining power of both groups.
Unions are a critical counterbalance to the power of corporations. Hardly perfect, but we'll be sorry when they're gone.
Unions are a critical counterbalance to the power of corporations. Hardly perfect, but we'll be sorry when they're gone.
With the major advances in AI threatening to further take power from the many and give it to the few, I definitely agree.
For consumers, now is a good time to evaluate paid streaming services. The content pipeline will be rationed and extended, leading to a decline in new programming. HBO/"Max" was already looking shaky, and we've noticed Apple and Amazon are increasingly plastered with paid options.
This is where the broadcasters and streamers opt for more unscripted TV and foreign dubbed content.
I can imagine a ton of people canceling their subscriptions if all the providers put out is that crap “filler content.”
Unions are a critical counterbalance to the power of corporations. Hardly perfect, but we'll be sorry when they're gone.
Given the explicit "we'll just wait for them to lose their housing" messaging from the Hollywood executives... Good on SAG-AFTRA. This can only increase the bargaining power of both groups.
Waiting until striking workers run out of money is absolutely gentille, when it comes to the history of strike-breaking.
> “In that ground breaking AI proposal, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day’s pay, and their company should own that scan, their image, their likeness, and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation,” he said. “So if you think that’s a ground breaking proposal I suggest you think again.” I m…
Previous discussion of the topic right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27852017
Unions are a critical counterbalance to the power of corporations. Hardly perfect, but we'll be sorry when they're gone.
With the major advances in AI threatening to further take power from the many and give it to the few, I definitely agree.
> “In that ground breaking AI proposal, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day’s pay, and their company should own that scan, their image, their likeness, and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation,” he said. “So if you think that’s a ground breaking proposal I suggest you think again.” I m…