Movies and TV productions are rapidly leaving California to film outside the United States, where labor costs are lower and tax incentives greater. Industry workers are exasperated.
No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.
Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline and article lol, when will people stop reading this antiworker, pro-capitalist neoliberal propaganda and pretending it represents any kind of progressive view?
The strikes were an invitation to build a future, and the people who own things in the US have a deeply violent relationship with the future.
Why the hell would you make a big budget movie in the US these days unless you had to? Nobody likes hanging out on a rapidly sinking ship.
The article does talk about why labor overseas is cheaper. Twice, in fact:
Labor costs in countries where the government pays for health care are often far lower than anywhere in the United States, particularly in California.
One budget document viewed by The New York Times showed the cost of a seven-person set operations team — positions known as “grips” — to be roughly $59,000 for a 30-day shoot in Budapest.
Because of health care, pension and other expenses, it costs about $53,000 to employ just one senior-level grip in Los Angeles for the same time frame,
The US really needs to de-couple healthcare from employment.
Asides from healthcare being a basic human need, it’s a drag on our economy.
No they are leaving because this is a trash country to live in, and a hellish place to try to make any kind of art.
Of course NYT would focus on labor being too expensive in their headline and article lol, when will people stop reading this antiworker, pro-capitalist neoliberal propaganda and pretending it represents any kind of progressive view?
The strikes were an invitation to build a future, and the people who own things in the US have a deeply violent relationship with the future.
Why the hell would you make a big budget movie in the US these days unless you had to? Nobody likes hanging out on a rapidly sinking ship.
The article does talk about why labor overseas is cheaper. Twice, in fact:
The US really needs to de-couple healthcare from employment.
Asides from healthcare being a basic human need, it’s a drag on our economy.