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WGA Strike: Reading the Demands as a Billionaire's Rep
from The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345 · #345
4 min
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Tim frames himself as secretly representing the billionaire studio heads while claiming solidarity with striking writers, going through the WGA's official list of demands and rejecting most of them, including significant minimum compensation increases.
- Tim has projects that have ground to a halt because of the WGA strike, and while he supports the writers, he's going to try negotiating on their behalf anyway.
- The Writers Guild wants more money from Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, Hulu, Disney, and Fox, who all have it.
- There's not a ton of great entertainment on TV or streamers right now, which is worth acknowledging during the strike.
- Disney just laid off 7,000 jobs, IBM's laying off jobs, and AI is taking over people's jobs.
- Could AI write a show like Labraa, about a hole that opens in Los Angeles where people fall through to another world?
- ChatGPT is real now, and AI writing shows is no longer as far off as it once was.
- Tim now speaks for the billionaires wearing their glasses, explaining which writer demands can and cannot happen.
- The first demand—increase minimum compensation significantly—is off the table immediately.
- Standardizing compensation and residual terms for features on streaming is also a no from the billionaire side.
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