Still mourning the loss of ) one day after news broke that it, like so many other streamers, has canceled a critically admired original program (this time, Reboot) after just one season. Disney is looking at layoffs amid “restructuring,” while the newly returned Bob Iger takes home a salary of $1 million (plus an annual performance up to another $1 million, plus up to $25 million in stock options).
Whatever the strategy might be in Hollywood on any given day, neither viewers nor workers appear to factor into its corporate calculus. The movies and TV shows we consume are merely “content” to be shuffled from one platform to the next, for an ever-changing monthly subscriber fee. The only thing that doesn’t change is that when the bills are due, it’s workers and consumers who always seem to wind up paying the price.
