Two stories emerge from talking to writers and actors on the picket lines at studios around Los Angeles. The first is of an industry in chaos as workers fret about the effects of technological change on their pay-cheques, and studios balk at Wall Street demanding profits, not just subscriber growth, from their streaming platforms. The second story is about a city that is shrinking because it is too expensive for its workers. is Los Angeles’s deepest anxieties at risk of losing the industry that gave it fame and makes it, arguably, the entertainment capital of the world at ?