[adenozine]

You might like to read about the Writers Guild in Hollywood. Highly organized, high salaries far surpassing even that of tech, with graduates in the top percentiles coming into 500k/yr salaries fresh out of graduation, all union.

[mlindner]

Yes when you can create a form of in-effect regulatory capture you can engage in monopolistic practices to gouge the customers via creating artificial scarcity. Movies continue to climb in costs.

None of that applies to software development which is a global phenomena.

[adenozine]

Sorry, are you implying that filmmaking is somehow less universal than software engineering?

Many jobs are more difficult than hacking on Angular bs all day, it’s not like most devs implicitly deserve the high pay they enjoy here in the States.

Not to mention, most people are far more likely to pay for a movie than for a piece of software, excluding video games.

[mlindner]

> Sorry, are you implying that filmmaking is somehow less universal than software engineering?

Hollywood filmmaking is indeed not a universal phenoma. There are other centers of filmmaking outside the US that aren't part of this guild.

[kortilla]

And the vast vast majority making nothing because they can’t get in.

[Firmwarrior]

Is that why tv and movies in the USA are often so hilariously poorly written? That there's an elite cabal of writers and it's impossible to join based on the merits of your writing?

[flir]

Seems to me we're in a golden age of TV right now.