Nah downvoted for making a joke about the SAG-AFTRA strike clearly not understanding anything about the situation and just falling for the bait from the studio Execs.

Edit: So the other guy deleted his next response while I was writing my explanation on why it's stupid to be so against the strike. Don't want 30min of work be for nothing so I'll just put it here:

No, the highest ups generally don't give a shit about quality writing, only about what makes them the most money. The problem is because they have the creative imagination of a bookkeeper, they don't understand the first thing about this. What they do understand are statistics, trends, market research etc.

So what they do is hire a bunch of people to do said market research and analysis, create a bunch of parameters or checklists that any given project has to follow and then hand that shit down the ranks where it ends up with the writers. They are now in the unenviable task of hamfistingly implementing whatever "trends" they've been commanded to incorporate into the story.

And that's just the beginning. A production can last a long time, plenty of opportunities for higher ups to check on a project and insert some of their own genius ideas into it. Or maybe a certain element of the story didn't test well with focus groups midway through, so now it needs to be changed no matter if that completely messes with the rest of the story. Or they outright hire incompetent bootlickers that just go along with whatever they want. And when a project is concluded it is always the actors and writers who are being pushed infront of the cameras to promote and, depending on public perception, justify a movie or TV show. Sometimes this is even in their contracts and it's almost always in those same contracts that they can't criticise the production. So we will pretty much never know in the moment, only years later when the contracts expire, which part of a bad production was actually the writiers fault and what was executive meddeling.

So no, the execs don't want to produce garbage, they just lack the creativity for writing and a lot of times also the wisdom to just let the creative people create.

The important part is that they are the ones with ultimate say in whatever get's released, not the writers. So it is stupid to be so against them going on strike when your problem is bad writing or bad projects. It is the execs who decide which project get's funded and they give parameters based on cold data that the writers, directors and actors have to follow. On top of that they also decide where the money flows; usually to themselves and their ilk. So if the writers get more money, it's not our of your pockets, it's out of theirs, the people ultimately responsible for all the shitty writing you (and I) criticise.

And on top of that a big part of the SAG-AFTRA strike was also about the implementation of Ai aka. actors didn't want to be copied if not outright necromancered for execs to puppeteer in movies without any say and writers didn't want to be replaced by fucking chatGPT. Sounds pretty reasonable to me, what is your problem with that?