Since Detroit is the analog, these are the Top 3 Reasons for the collapse of Detroit industry: 1. Intense Global Competition and Failure to Adapt 2. Decentralization of Auto Production (Plants Moved Away) 3. Labor Costs, Union Relations, and Mismanagement

@AVARY Id only add LA had made it impossible to live in unless you made a very high amount above the nationwide living wage. Detroit didnt quite do that when it lost all its manufactory.

@AVARY Pretty sad, really. Hollywood made its name by having abundant sunshine, and never considered what the next sunshine could be when everyone started shooting indoors via soundstage and cgi. They had 100 years to lose it. May take another 100+ to win it back.

@AVARY I'd put 3 at #1. The unions made it impossible to build cars in Detroit, so they moved the factories elsewhere.

@AVARY As an emergency measure, the unions/guilds could agree to suspend all their minimums for five years, then phase them back in gradually. That alone would resuscitate Hollywood.

@AVARY Mostly spot-on, save for the mismanagement part. This was engineered by the studios, who are happy to have all these regions going back-and-forth with increasingly rich incentives.

@AVARY Those reasons sound very familiar.

@AVARY All true. I would add incompetent and corrupt local government that helped drive away industry. Detroit went from being the wealthiest city in America in the fifties to bankrupt in the 2000s.

@AVARY Everyone I know including myself — is is not working in it. Post-production, producers, writers, camera guys, cant find work. Between streaming services, cheaper tech, outsourcing, , and kids watching streamers and not movies anymore, the industry is falling apart

@AVARY the entertainment industry was bound to be splintered eventually imo. LA just put Hollywood's demise on rails.

@AVARY According to who? The men that advocated against domestic manufacturing?

@AVARY Its not the analog. Communist takeover is.

@AVARY Detroit is not the analog.

@AVARY That's a long way of saying, because of Democrats.

@AVARY Old Detroit has a cancer...

@AVARY I would live in Detroit before L.A.

@AVARY Spot on

@AVARY We can apply this to things much bigger than Detroit.