‘They Think We’re Uber Drivers’: Striking Writers Are Pissed

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‘They Think We’re Uber Drivers’: Striking Writers Are Pissed
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Writers on the WGA strike picket line shared a call-to-action for anyone across the country who wants to support their cause: “Cancel your subscriptions” and make the streamers hurt.

. Still, the writer advocates for the fact that her experience hasn’t helped in any capacity.

“There are no middle class writers anymore,” Schiff added. “You used to be able to make a living and support a family as a middle class writer. They have the baby writers and the executive producers, and that mid-level is just gone.” She then quoted the legendary Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg: “The writers are the most important people in Hollywood, but they can never let the son-of-a-bitches find out.

“It became very clear to us how important AI is to the companies when they would not even open a discussion about it,” Yorkin said. “They basically said they wanted to preserve that technology in case their employees should need it. That tells us that probably what they’d like to do is eventually replace us and replace many other people in the business with AI.”

“Cancel your subscriptions,” Horowitz said. “If people out there started canceling their subscriptions and not watching stuff that is on streamers, that would have a huge impact, if people were to do that in numbers. If enough people cancel their subscriptions—even in the short run in solidarity—that will actually make a statement.”

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