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There are "way more" actors in the sense that there are many people who want to act for a living, but the analogy doesn't hold from an education and experience
by diminoten 8y ago
There are "way more" actors in the sense that there are many people who want to act for a living, but the analogy doesn't hold from an education and experience married to that desire standpoint.
Further acting is older than gaming, and those unions were given space to form during a period of time that was very different from today.
- naravara 8y ago>Further acting is older than gaming, and those unions were given space to form during a period of time that was very different from today. In the 1930s back when union organizing was likely to get you beaten by goons or assassinated by hitmen/the mob? Or in the 1940s and '50s, when active membership in the union put you at risk of getting brought up in front of the House Unamerican Activities Committee and blacklisted from ever working again?
- diminoten 8y agoThat's not at all how the film industry's unions formed or any of its history, and blackballing a statistically small number of writers was wrong, but completely unrelated to what we're talking about...
- Animats 8y agoIf you think they were "given space", read up on the history of the labor movement in the US. IATSE Local 728 has an article about their own history that doesn't gloss over the bad stuff.[1] [1] https://www.iatse728.org/about-us/history/the-war-for-warner-brothers https://www.iatse728.org/about-us/history/the-war-for-warner...
- diminoten 8y agoLabor movement != film industry union movement. A lot of the issues other labor movements experienced simply didn't happen nearly to the extent in film.
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