They’re not actually complaining about not enough pay. They#re complaining about too much competition.
“It’s really about cobbling together a living,” she said. “Even though people look at what we’re paid, they have to understand that last year I only had one [writers’] room for ten weeks.
“I essentially lived off what I made for ten weeks and one other project.”
Increasing the pay will only increase the number of people attracted into being the competition, won’t it?
So, she’s striking for more pay when she can live for a year – in California – on what she was paid for ten weeks work “and one other project” (implicitly small as she didn’t get a room for it)?!?
How many people would not dream of that level of pay? (Apart from Bill Gates and the rest of the 0.1%)
I’m writing a novel. The plot and the opening line are terrific. The rest needs more work. Maybe I should hire one of these bozos.
OK, scriptwriting is so competitive you might only find work for less than 1/4 of the year, but at the same time so lacking in competition that you can live on less than 3 month’s earnings. How do we reconcile this? Easy; these people are full of shit, as you know from their output.
Presumably those who are at the top of their game and in demand have to turn work down.