I think it's a consequence of media you watch being made by people that are way richer than you buy also put in 15 hour days (TV writers), that's where the recurring work/lige balance struggle comes into so many shows as well. Also how anyone working in service is depicted cause they served tables for a summer once and that's their experience. Shows are written by professional writers and reflect their experiences which are very different than ours.
There was a good old Cracked article about exactly that (which was IIRC unfortunately written by the sex pest writer they had), about how all the weird class tropes in pop culture are because of the specific class character of a hollywood writer, how they're both exploited and privileged, out of touch from normal workers but still excluded from the real bourgeois club, and all their precarity and overwork gets focused into single important and discrete projects instead of just being a function of a constant grind of smaller actions.
I think it was "John Cheese," who was writing probably half the articles at the time and usually focused on class or addiction, and who I think later got outed as a sex pest though I don't know the details of that having only heard of it in passing. I think the article itself was called something like "Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About Working Families" or something, but it's been over a decade since I saw it so I can't remember anything clearer.
Also how anyone working in service is depicted cause they served tables for a summer once and that’s their experience.
I really feel this. Used to work at a serving job where the guests were all elite tourists and the staff was made up almost exclusively of rich European kids working for beer money over the summer while they traveled in the US. This was the same wage I was feeding a family on.
Shows are written by professional writers and reflect their experiences which are very different than ours.
and how out of touch this experience is gets amplified because they're all in a "writer's room" together and don't have any contrary experiences. Even if that writer's room is diverse in ways not having to do with class.
I think it's a consequence of media you watch being made by people that are way richer than you buy also put in 15 hour days (TV writers), that's where the recurring work/lige balance struggle comes into so many shows as well. Also how anyone working in service is depicted cause they served tables for a summer once and that's their experience. Shows are written by professional writers and reflect their experiences which are very different than ours.
There was a good old Cracked article about exactly that (which was IIRC unfortunately written by the sex pest writer they had), about how all the weird class tropes in pop culture are because of the specific class character of a hollywood writer, how they're both exploited and privileged, out of touch from normal workers but still excluded from the real bourgeois club, and all their precarity and overwork gets focused into single important and discrete projects instead of just being a function of a constant grind of smaller actions.
Yeah, thst sums it up pretty well. They're at the bottom of the top and have to scrape hard to stay there.
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Which cracked writer?
I think it was "John Cheese," who was writing probably half the articles at the time and usually focused on class or addiction, and who I think later got outed as a sex pest though I don't know the details of that having only heard of it in passing. I think the article itself was called something like "Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About Working Families" or something, but it's been over a decade since I saw it so I can't remember anything clearer.
Shit, you’re right. Feels real bad.
I really feel this. Used to work at a serving job where the guests were all elite tourists and the staff was made up almost exclusively of rich European kids working for beer money over the summer while they traveled in the US. This was the same wage I was feeding a family on.
and how out of touch this experience is gets amplified because they're all in a "writer's room" together and don't have any contrary experiences. Even if that writer's room is diverse in ways not having to do with class.