By the way, there’s a real social-progressive way to look at that, which nobody talks about, which is that the people who’ve gotten pushed out of the Hollywood economy generally are older white men. “We’ve invited all these fancy artists into the medium, and they look at it like art, not a job.” “Where’s my Alias? Where’s my West Wing? Where’s my 24? Where’s my Ally McBeal, Once and Again, and Brothers & Sisters? I have a friend who works at Netflix, and for years I’ve been asking, ‘When are all of you streamers going to get your prestige heads out of your asses?’” “The reason nobody really wants to open the books on this is because if Wall Street got a look, they’d have a collective stroke.” Let’s take one of the truly successful money-printing inventions in the history of the modern world - which was the carriage system with cable television - and let’s just end it and reinvent ourselves as tech companies, where we pour billions down the drain in pursuit of a return that is completely speculative, still, this many years into it.’” That seems like the thing to do.’ Which essentially was like, ‘Let’s all commit ritual suicide. “Everything became big tech - the Amazon model of ‘We don’t actually have to make money we just have to show shareholder growth.’ Everyone said, ‘Great. “These companies took what was an extraordinarily successful economic model and they destroyed it in favor of a model that may or may not work - but almost certainly won’t work as well as the old model.” “It’s like the entire system has snapped.” “It’s such a fucking disaster, isn’t it?” “This is the single worst time to be making anything in the history of the medium. If you call a slew of Hollywood’s most powerful showrunners, studio chiefs, agents, and operators and ask them to describe the state of the television business, they will say things like:
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