#i started this rant in the tags of something but then decided my unorganized thoughts should have a post of their own

[terrainofheartfelt]

the thing that is really getting me with the wga/sag-aftra strike, and the corporate greed that brought us all to this place, is that for my entire life, as someone who has always wanted to be an artist of some kind, the conventional wisdom is that becoming an artist means resigning yourself to a life of poverty and forfeiting a future that allows you to live in basic dignity and human comfort.

and isn't that so fucked? that the unspoken thing about working in the arts is that because you chose it over something else, you don't deserve to live comfortably? because, why, you didn't choose to be a business major? or didn't choose to be generationally wealthy?

except it's not unspoken anymore, because artists are asking to be compensated adequately for their work, and studio execs are saying that they will wait to starve them out like fucking 14th century serfs. because that's what you get for not being corporately savvy enough to choose a vocation in the arts.

I'm just, I'm really tired of talking around the issue in every circle, which at the heart is this: there is one side that says every human being, no matter their field of expertise or age or stage in their career, deserves to live in dignity and not poverty, and the other side is saying that for the sake of their own near-sighted comfort, an unquantifiable number of people deserve to suffer. and i'm really tired of the fallacy that's been fed to me all my life that I can either be an artist, or live with the basic dignity of a home and meals and healthcare.

anyway. yes strikes yes unions fuck the amptp xoxoxoxoxo