THB #375: Are Quotas Required To Solve The WGA Strike?

I have been chewing and chewing and chewing on The Answer or even any really good idea about settling the WGA strike for months now. I play around with an idea, pawing at it like a cat with a piece of yarn, and I have never felt comfortable with publishing anything, because I don’t want to add to the metric tons of simplistic or misguided analysis out there.

Thinking on it, I am not all that interested in the dogma about what is righteous. I support The Writers and The Actors. I love righteousness also. But this is business. Business is, broadly, immoral. If a gig economy for writers (and ultimately, actors) is what the business model is going to be for a while, let’s try to solve for that and not “what is right.”

The thing that kept gnawing at me most was the idea of a salary cap, like in sports leagues. Of course, the cap isn’t what I’ve been interested in… it’s the minimums. Because of massive television deals (mostly), every major league basketball and football team has a minimum t…