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Originally Posted by mhays
Thanks for the detail. Their "entertainment industry" numbers are surprisingly high, and I wonder if they're counting apples and describing oranges.
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Your comment about 'actors and camera guys' revealed that you might not know much about the entertainment industry. It's not just actors, directors, and camera guys who are employed by the entertainment industry. The big studios are just like any other corporation, meaning they employ countless people who aren't on the creative side of things, but allow the business to function, such as accountants, HR and payroll people, marketing and advertising teams, secretaries, legal, PR, etc.
Beyond these more corporate roles, there are tons of people who work on sets doing things like set design, hair and makeup, costume design, video editing, sound tech. I work across the street from a catering company that makes the vast majority of their money from providing craft services to sets, and when production stopped due to the strikes, they were hurting bad so they pivoted and opened a little storefront cafe. There's an immense ripple effect from the entertainment industry, and it probably is a more significant than ripple effect from most other industries.
Lastly, I think people sometimes view the entertainment industry as just being film and TV, but there's much more to it. Of course there's also the music industry, which is largely headquartered in LA, but also things like video games and VR, which LA has become a huge hub of too. All of these things are part of the wider entertainment industry.