I’m going to be blunt.

The WGA is cutting its own throat.

Writers are a dime a bazillion.

The Internet is not going to make the WGA more important.  In fact, the relevance of a “writer’s union” is laughable in the face of the free-media economy of the web. 

You spoiled, self-important hacks are looking at the evolution of media and crying “we want more.”    Waaah….you know how how much the average blog writer makes?  The average fanfic author?  I’m willing to bet a lot of them could write a show just as good as a union, WGA writer.   And for a lot less money.

Maybe 10 years ago, one still had to live in L.A. to be a scriptwriter and there was some basis for demanding a big salary.  (yes, to the rest of us who punch a clock for a living, you writers make a big salary.)  But today, people like me can draft a script for Supernatural, or the show of your choice, using a screenwriting program and email it to CW.  Hell, I’d be thrilled if I got $100.00 for it.

You heard me.  $100.00.  Thrilled.   I work cheap.  I write now as a hobby and pick up a few meager pennies from the stupid banner ads you see to the right of the page.  Wanna trade places, oh Ye of the Guild?

Didn’t think so.  But people like ME are going to replace people like YOU in the very near future.  The Internet is replacing network television.  TV schedules will become a thing of the past very quickly.  Soon, independent production companies will be releasing more movies and shows straight to the internet.  Why bother incurring the production costs of straight-to-DVD?

If you WGA dorks weren’t so busy freaking out about what you’re not making, while you’re still making pretty damn good money by anybody else’s standards – you’d realize that a Union is only valid so long as it represents a pool of specialized labor not easily replaced.

Bahahahaha!  That’s definately not you guys. Oh, don’t get your feelings hurt, I’m not saying the writing is bad.  In fact the Supernatural writers have my great admiration. I’m just saying that to think the WGA is going to “protect”  writing income, is pure baloney.  Ask the UAW how auto manufacturing jobs are going.  Take a good look around you, how are American jobs doing as a whole in the global economy?  Are real wages going up or down for most of us average joes? 

You know the answer, you chicken-livered pencil suckers.  So what makes you so special?

Nothing.

Tell the WGA to let you go back to work.  Or get ready to enter the bustling service economy with the rest of us.

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