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The conversation offers a dark worldview: Hollywood is sinking under its own bureaucratic weight. They criticize unions, government regulations, and the industry’s resistance to innovation, calling out the inefficiencies caused by union mandates and the inability to adapt to modern demands.
They suggest that Hollywood’s problems are deeper than just creative decisions—suggesting the industry is entrenched in a cycle of decline fueled by corruption, virtue signaling, and profit over storytelling. Union regulations, union greed, and government interference are seen as primary culprits, actively hampering production and innovation.