Daily Poll 525
What do you think of the writers strike?
The Writers Guild of America is on strike for the first time since 2007. While striking isn’t new at all, to me, this is indicative of the fact that Hollywood has declined as a cultural institution. The situation to me seems that the bean counters want to treat all writers as gig workers instead of salaried union employees. Add inflation bringing down real wages for just about everyone and a strike like this makes sense especially when you consider just how many folks live paycheck to paycheck these days and always have. Those are just my thoughts. What are yours? Don’t forget to vote on the poll and to comment below!
Introducing the Daily Poll and it's Archive
For well over a year I have been posting a poll on the member site for Eric D July. It’s a paid forum so my archive of polls won’t be accessible to most readers. I will start a new archive here and post the same poll I post to the site on my substack. These ones are usually quite short but some get up a bit in word count so don’t expect the most eloquen…