Hollywood studios have lost the strikes. Now it’s time to negotiate surrender

I think the author's strong bias undercuts her claims. If she came off as a neutral observer predicting the studios would lose - I would listen. Instead, she seems stridently pro-writer and actor and against the studios - so why should I trust her analysis? Not that there's much analysis in the article - mostly it seems to be rhetoric.

Personally, I haven't even noticed the strike. The stuff I watch is mainly YouTube and TikTok and when I do watch TV I can easily go back into the massive catalog of shows I haven't got to yet.

As having been in a LTR with someone who worked in the film industry, Hollywood is just a giant salt mine that a handful get lucky and make it. The little people on strike are fighting over table scraps.

The strike does affect businesses supporting the industry, however the studios can wait it out because they have the deeper pockets.

With tens of thousands of things to watch from various sources, people will find other things to watch or tune out.

If the strike does end soon, it’s because the strikers will cave to the studios just to get the industry back to work.

I'd love to believe that, but I feel like the article doesn't justify it. The studios don't care how bad they look; people aren't going to unsubscribe just because the studios are obnoxious. They may tell pollsters they don't like it, but the studios only care whether they pay up.

The closest the article comes to justification is that the strikers have shown solidarity, and supporting the rejection of lowball offers. Now the entire thing is a game of chicken. Everybody is hemorrhaging money.

If I had to guess, I'd point out that the actors at least are used to long periods of unemployment (and the rich ones aren't starving). The writers are more middle-class, and perhaps that hurts more, but with the actors on board they've got no reason to give in to a weak offering (since they wouldn't get back to work anyway).

Still... the studios may well be content to cut off their noses to spite their faces. They're playing the long game and they think that within a decade they'll be able to fire everybody... except themselves, of course.

In a world of streaming, strikes might even be profitable for studios. A very large drop in subscribers would be required to offset the benefit of lower content spend.

Studios exist to make profit. Producing content is nothing more than an intermediate step.