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Hollywood screenwriting is an atypical labor market for all sorts of reasons. The fact that they are heavily unionized is only one small factor.
by MartinCron 14y ago
Hollywood screenwriting is an atypical labor market for all sorts of reasons. The fact that they are heavily unionized is only one small factor.
- smsm42 14y agoScreenwriting may be atypical, but arithmetics that produces this problem is very typical. If you set a minimal price for certain item, that makes anybody holding the same item with lesser value effectively unable to sell it. If you set a minmal price for a car at $20k, you wouldn't be able to sell a used car once its value fell below $20k. Selling one's services abides by the same laws - price floor means excluding items with value less than the floor.
- Evbn 14y agoAre you somehow under the impression that Hollywood buys fewer screenplays than it would if producers could pay less? That there are some movies not getting made because of this?
- smsm42 14y agoIf by "Hollywood" you mean whole movie/TV/entertainment industry, then yes, I think price of the scripts influences decisions. Blockbuster aren't the only movies made.