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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How Hollywood's Writers Strike Could Change the Future of TV and Movies

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Disinvestment in the Human Capital Pipeline

The writers are striking against studios that were making record profit margins. Instead, they're striking in a very strange period in entertainment history where Netflix has lured all of these different studios into a subscription video service. The consumer is winning because for the last decade and a half, we have had a highly subsidized content ecosystem here.

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