Just because free agents don’t free associate through shared employment in paycheck corps doesn’t mean they are lone wolves who either stay out if each other’s way or compete 1:1 in Hobbesian ways. Economic sociability is not limited to markets and corporatized entities.
The “Hollywood model” was very popular among free agency/gig economy researchers about ten years ago. Many books written then referenced it. It’s great for explaining the problem, but Hollywood’s actual solution is lousy outside the peculiarities of the film industry.
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In fact the heavily unionized solution doesn’t even work very well for Hollywood itself anymore.
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For me it’s less about the union and more about the strong social safety net, as well as possibly some organized labor of some kind on the gig economy side, to prevent a race to the bottom.
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Much of it happened due to strong antitrust action from the US government in the 1950s, including the vertically integrated movie houses losing a Supreme Court deal. Strong government antitrust and labor protections could allow the Hollywood model to be adapted to the 2020s
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