I realise I am going to come across exactly like this stock market trader the BBC was interviewing ages ago but I totally get the mentality. I've had a long plan of setting up my own game dev/media business and I am absolutely thrilled at all the bad shit that is happening to these awful companies. I know that traditionally it's bad karma to celebrate people losing their jobs and everything but in these particular instances and given they really are the absolute worse sorts of people getting the axe I think I can get away with it.
Hollywood, going down? That's fucking fantastic, can't stand the paedophile people traffickers. On top of that back in the day it would have been unthinkable for an outsider to come up with any kind of movies or short films to compete but now they're shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity and the AI dispute with the writers and actors might be the thing that finally kills them or at least severely weakens their hold over media.
Games companies dying? Great, fuck them, they hate their own playerbase anyway and openly show they do. Not only that, like Hollywood they consistently produce shit and haven't made a single improvement in their workflows with the overall quality going to hell.
Journalists getting replaced by AI? That's even better, all of the stuff they spew out is going to be unwatchable and the AI could well be exploited at some point that even with left wingers the news is going to be discredited. Adding to that journalists simply won't have the same power as they once did so they won't be able to form convincing twitter mobs against specific people who stand up to them or just get in their crosshairs.
Everyone who cares about the state of journalism, films, games should be excited about what's going to happen and there's a lot of money to be made from these stupid fucks. Indie creators will now be able to get their foot in the door with films as Hollywood's reach diminishes. Indie game devs can compete with the big corporations even if they're shamelessly cloning other titles as long as it doesn't suck which I find hilarious. Citizen journalists as well are probably going to get far more attention online as the normies get fed up with the AI bots everywhere or react with horror as some 4chan autist manages to get the AI to spam gas the jews live on air to be edgy.
While I too cheer for these corrupt institutions to fail, they won't. The cathedral won't let that happen. "Too big to fail". Stimulus packages in the name of continuing to promote propaganda. Make work jobs for the useful idiots that have some kind of work ability and cushy welfare boosts for those who don't wanna. In fact, I fully expect any day now to see coordinated news articles about how vital Hollywood is because movies are America's greatest export and we need to keep little Ahmed Mohammed from listening to his parents about what Islam says about women and gays.
The majority of people to lose their jobs will likely be people who actually work and keep vital yet nearly invisible infrastructure operating. The competency crisis gets boosted to new levels, more disasters happen, more "free" money in the feeding trough.
Will more people having their entire way of life destroyed by liars, cheaters, and thieves finally get them to act? Don't bet your life on it, fren.
I completely agree and that's a scenario I've thought about as well but these institutions are going to be a total shell of their former selves. The normies are going to get absolutely hopping mad if a bailout is offered and especially if the democrats are dumb enough to do it before 2024 because then Trump can completely capitalise on that move by going "I hate these guys more than you ever will and I'll be happy to see them unemployed, vote for me".
They could justify it with the banks, because muh economy, but the media and Hollywood? That's going to be a hilarious shitshow. I was actually talking to some normies RL recently about the sort of stuff they actually like watching and even these guys were basically saying they just streamed stuff or didn't really watch any Hollywood movies. A lot of these businesses are going to be done even with the bailouts and even if Hollywood does get money, the whole AI issue is going to make them lose tons of staff which will lead to a huge drop in quality.
I think even for normies, a bailout of the media companies and Hollywood is going to be a massive red pill moment and I can't wait.