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Golden Rule The Strikes Were About Equity and More … Lots More By Andy Marken You had to see it coming. The studio and streamer bosses walking away from the “discussions” with the actors representatives because the negotiations were “no longer moving forward". After nearly 200 days – combined walkouts - they’d heard the same complaints from directors, writers and actors … we need a “living wage” for all of our people and you can use your AI technology, just not in our part of the business. And there’s already a litany of similar complaints/demands being prepared by the other nearly 20 union/guild groups that represent the folks who work on films and shows around the country. They’re not alone. More than 450,000 workers have participated in 312 strikes in the US this year, according to Cornell University’s Labor Action Tracker. That’s more than twice the number of walkouts compared to last year. For most Americans, financial progress slowed to a crawl over the past decade with income and wealth inequity soaring. Workers across industries – healthcare, education, services, entertainment – barely made it through the global shutdown of 2019/2020. Higher prices have not kept pace with inflation falling two percent over the past two years. It has become a major concern for people’s standard of living. In addition, the top one percent has pulled away from everyone else, even as the entertainment industry was undergoing a seismic shift as it adjusted to meet consumer needs/demands. Movie theater ticket sales managed to increase to about 825.2M tickets; a slight increase over 2022, but still well down from the industry’s peak in 2002.