Here's my take on the Hollywood writer's strike.
I fully support the right of organized labor to strike, and I sympathize with the economic hardship associated with people being put out of work.
However, could there be something less important to the overall functioning of the economy? These jobs are not going anywhere; so the flow of product will be interrupted for a while, so what? There are billions of dollars worth of productivity going to China that will never return to this country.
Striking writers are not going to force the producers to get Chinese writers to scab for them.
So people don't get to see fresh episodes of CSI or Desperate Housewives for a while, and they have to watch something that is slightly crappier than normal.
Entertainment is an important industry to the USA, one of our leading exports. Strikes are just another one of the economic checks and balances that help the marketplace adjust.
Don't worry, it will all be over eventually and we can get back to watching our normal stupid crap.
