Comment on Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking
napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de 11 months agoI don’t think the article is trying to claim that labor exploitation is new.
This part directly admits that it is a very old phenomenon:
It’s been noted, and correctly so, that entertainment industry labor disputes often erupt when there’s a change in technology — from theaters screening projected films to the cathode ray tube of the home television, say, or the rise of YouTube and other online content in the 2000s — and that happens for a reason. Historically, executives and management use a disorienting new technology to try to justify lowering wages of their workers, and they have done so since the days of the Industrial Revolution.
As I understood it, the article just wants to explain why this is happening now, because historically it seems to happen in waves.
Zeth0s@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The reason I see is that old school execs have found in the silicon valley the gold rush.
A place where engineers are the miners that could allow them to make money. Their preaching poisoned the silicon valley. Mckinsey type of execs and exec consultant raveged the silicon valley’s tech companies as soon as the big money start flowing in, burning everything in the meantime. For the movie industry, the newest wave of “technological exploitation” took longer because they are historical a very conservative, well established industry lead by tech illiterates.
The next industry will be automotive. Which is one of the most corrupted and amoral industry out there, even without modern tech. Now that old school automotive exec are learning how to turn on a computer, the wave will start there