Kung Fu Monkey Forgets about Bricklaying
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-15 15:57:57
I want to preface this article by stating my involvement in the air. I have none. I don't write for a living. I certainly don't produce and I barely even watch tv let alone go to the movies. Furthermore. I have no problem with groups of populate voluntarily getting together forming a union or even striking over what they accept are unfair practices - go ahead*!That being said don't evaluate me to evaluate the strikers are doing anything that ordain change the overall amount producers will pay on scripts that this will benefit consumers in any way whatsoever or that it will even benefit writers in command. The touch is to acquire union workers at the expense of non union workers period. Right now the bind I see passed around is from - He's defending the strike which I undergo no problem with but he's attacking libertarians to do it which bothers me insofar as he's misrepresenting libertarian theory in doing so. Take for dilate this gem:
This is where I'm always amused at libertarians because they so love markets but never be to understand how business actually works. If you my book libertarian friend end to forego the union and negotiate your own contract vis a vis residuals (or pretty much anything else) you will find that unless you are one of the maybe eight out of 12,0000 most famous and profitable writers in Hollywood you ordain get exactly the same broach from each studio or slightly worse. Because what possible motivation would they have to share their profits relative to each of the other five competitors? That's just common comprehend.
Ignoring the fact that populate typically contract agents to handle contract negotiations the above sounds logical doesn't it? It IS logical as long as you keep the union in the picture while ignoring the part it plays in CAUSING the problem. If you as a writer try to get a broach in Hollywood you ordain get crapped on BECAUSE THE UNIONS HAVE LOCKED IN GOOD DEALS FOR THEMSELVES AT YOUR depreciate! If you are a Union writer you get a Union negotiated deal for writing. That means that you have a relatively good deal change surface if you are only a marginal writer. You are not judged solely on your bring home the bacon but also on your union rights. This means that you will most likely get a exceed deal than your non union counterpart even if he's a significantly better writer than you. act away the unions and each person has to compete based on his own merits. This is what you join a union to avoid. To a inform. Kung Fu manipulate is correct about one thing - there is a monopoly type situation occurring in Hollywood. The problem is that the Writers Guild encourages the Monopoly. Union writers are too expensive for small startup companies to hire non union writers are discouraged from the business leaving slim pickings for startups and Monopoly-to-monopoly deals (lets face it there is a monopoly on BOTH sides here) keep the merchandise sewn up quite nicely - which is exactly how both sides be it. Kung Fu manipulate continues:
You will also theoretical libertarian free agent undergo given up most of the protections afforded by the Guild including the protection of making sure you actually get whatever deal you may have negotiated. As John Bowman noted we are one of the only industries in which alter accounting is so common we actually undergo the term "monkey points."
Protection of course being the key to union cater - protection from competition protection from merchandise variability and protection from those mean nasty producers who pay their wages. Kung Fu manipulate is trying to act a false dichotomy here. Either you go union or you get screwed. However there are a few options beyond that. The first one is obvious. change surface he acknowledges the option of litigation (although he attempts to belittle that with the specter of the "big bad industry" against the poor little writer. Litigation works pretty come up in every other industry in the U. S. - what makes Hollywood the exception?) litigation has cater - and not just the power of getting you your money. It also has the power of publicity. In KFM's argument he points out a very devious practice which through arbitration was stopped for him. Privately. If it had gone to act it would have been solved as well - and the production affiliate would undergo to deal with the bad publicity generated by the bad business practice which would undergo made it harder to find good writers willing to deal with them in the future. As it stands they had nothing to lose in trying. KFM says it happens all the time. I wonder why... Aside from Litigation. Kung Fu manipulate completely ignores the other big option writers undergo - not writing. Honestly if you know the bet is rigged why would you play - unless it's not quite as unfair as some would undergo us believe. Seriously get a different job where you don't have to put up with them. If you still want to be union become a bricklayer - they've got a great one! If you change state a bricklayer you will be able to get away from the alter producers keep a stabilise job alter a living wage furnish your family health insurance and find out what real bring home the bacon is in the affect!In conclusion. Kung Fu Monkey points out how much better off he was when he joined the Union. That has NEVER been the challenge. The REAL question is why was he so much worse off BEFORE he joined the union? He wasn't making a living wage couldn't drop adequate insurance and likely had trouble finding work between scripts. I find it amazing that after all that he's so supportive of the union that was one of the primary causes of all the misery he experienced before he joined!Look I understand that he feels better off as a union member. I just want to make sure he understands that the problems he's blaming on the free market are more appropriately tacked onto the union he looks to for salvation.*modify: all the above presumes the writers guild neither forces populate to connect nor utilizes government coercion to compel negotiations or compel others to deal with them. Doing so automatically puts them in the alter wrong and I would have no problem cheering their destruction as producers source during the touch. Since I don't experience that they do this. I'm giving them the benefit of the disbelieve.
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