The Park

A wonderful piece about the WGA strike:

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“You see, writers have long had a credo of “Pass it on.” When I say “long,” I mean cave-dwellers, sitting around the fire, enthralling listeners with tales of hope, terror, laughter and enchantment. Passing on stories is a writer’s reason for being — and at the core of that, they pass on their craft to other writers. Writers can be argumentative, isolated and petulant, but they adore what they do — to sit alone for a lifetime, dreaming up ways to enthrall others, you have to adore what you do — and so they have a burning desire to see that devotion continued. And so, they pass it on.

WGA writers understand that all the protections they enjoy today — minimum payment, pensions, health benefits, residuals — all came because earlier writers risked their careers to get them. The corporations did not provide these out of benevolence. And the entire film industry benefited from the gains the annoying writers got for them. “