alt Hacker News>The entertainment CEOs in charge would happily enshittify to stream AI slop with no workers if they thought they could get away with it
You're missing the point of my argument again and moving the frame of the discussions to random tangents you make up, but don't disprove what I'm saying.
Let me disprove your point AGAIN, this time with numbers. According to my Google-Fu, 2000-3000 people worked on making the Matrix in 1999, while today Disney employs 4000-6000 people for their shitty Marvel movies or remakes like snow white.
So no, the enshitification is not due to execs cutting workers, since more people work today on blockbuster movies than before, while quality is more shit.
The enshitification is because the people they employ now are either incompetent or malicious or a mix both.
Disney built a whole Marvel studio complex in Georga, USA moving production away from earlier Marvel production in Hollywood and union labor (and chasing tax breaks). Now they're tearing down that down to move to an even lower cost site in the UK. Marvel movies have been dropping in quality all while the execs pinch pennies and opt for lower and lower cost labor. Your data seems to support my assertions more.
"Tangents" of discussion are the whole point of a conversation I'm not approaching this as some competitive one upsmanship proving ground - I don't think either of us are going to get "proof".