As I sit and watch my local news, where all the anchors are sitting in their living rooms, some with green screens, some with plain white walls behind them, I can't help but think a lot of news agencies are thinking "why are we paying people thousands to produce this in a studio, this looks fine!" In fact this is a sentiment I have seen in many media and office jobs. Given how easy it is to get and properly use "prosumer" gear these days, it begs the question whether anyone would really care if news agencies and other such industries started to transition to this sort of thing permanently. For this reason I'm worried a lot of people who work on these sorts of crews will lose their jobs or see pay become less competitive after this is all over.
The same may happen to those in offices and the like which can do their job entirely remotely. Why hire someone locally in say, San Francisco, who needs a higher salary due to cost of living there, when someone in rural Missouri can do the job just as well for much less remotely.
What if studios trial bigger and bigger blockbuster films as streaming-only and quickly abandon theaters for all but the most epic and loud cultural landmark movies?
I wonder how many primarily dine-in restaurants will struggle to compete with those that got a head-start on the delivery boom. I've had multiple people express the idea that they would find it hard to go back to leaving the house for food now that they've realized how easy delivery is.
This will only accelerate the loss of local businesses to the every-growing Amazon empire as well.
Maybe I'm just paranoid.
The same may happen to those in offices and the like which can do their job entirely remotely. Why hire someone locally in say, San Francisco, who needs a higher salary due to cost of living there, when someone in rural Missouri can do the job just as well for much less remotely.
What if studios trial bigger and bigger blockbuster films as streaming-only and quickly abandon theaters for all but the most epic and loud cultural landmark movies?
I wonder how many primarily dine-in restaurants will struggle to compete with those that got a head-start on the delivery boom. I've had multiple people express the idea that they would find it hard to go back to leaving the house for food now that they've realized how easy delivery is.
This will only accelerate the loss of local businesses to the every-growing Amazon empire as well.
Maybe I'm just paranoid.