The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
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I was just coming in to say the same thing. Don’t get me wrong, I think the average consumer’s desire for speed and convenience above everything else (including ethics) is a problem, but that is completely separate from these industries posting record profits (even after adjusting for inflation) yet still paying and treating their workers for/like shit.
That’s right. That speed and convenience is already there, happening because of the workers who wake up every day and make the world happen.
But writers, directors, and actors (among others) receiving no (or comically small, like literal cents) for residuals because industry suit-wearing parasites created a looophole in streaming such that payment is not required? That’s a big reason for those media strikes. Among many other abuses such as trying to replace people with “AI” which only benefits the people who don’t work and contribute to society.
If every rich bastard acting as shareholder disappeared tomorrow, the world would continue on. But a strike is really making people get bent out of shape because they are slightly inconvenienced as people fight for fair wages and treatment. That tells you who is really important I guess.
We need to break up all media and scatter it to the winds. I know it won’t happen, but it needs to happen. It all acts as a propaganda network for their billionaire owners protecting their own class to our detriment.
This title and framing is absolute horseshit.
Abolish Amazon prime tomorrow. Break the company into tiny pieces, raise the cost of streaming platforms and cut the CEO pay by 1000% (they will still make millions).
That’s what consumers want. You can see viewers just giving money to talents on twitch and YouTube. People want to reward good content. Hollywood and these large corporations have just become extremely good at separating the workers from the value of labor, and taking the overwhelming lion’s share for investors.
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Consumers aren’t forcing the companies to have their workers work long days for little pay. Companies wanting to take in all the extra money consumers are offering without actually paying anymore out are the problem here.
The poppy refiner knows heroin is addictive.
as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
It’s not customer expectations that are driving low wages and overwork, it’s corporate greed. If Netflix / UPS / hired more workers and paid better wages then there wouldn’t be an issue. Blaming customers is just an attempt to deflect from the real culprits.
