The Los Angeles Problem

In an earlier blog post, I made mention the self-referential nature of how music played in dance clubs is frequently all about going to the club. Another self-referential problem came to my mind recently that I would wish to explain.
     It is well known that Los Angeles, America's second largest city, has its economy strongly rooted in the film industry. A huge chunk of these films take place in Los Angeles. Frequently, these films (or television shows) simply take place in the LA area because it is easier to film there, the script doesn't actually mandate that the city itself is necessary for any plot points. The characters that live in this movie version of the city just happen to live there, as if it were any other town. A problem arises when one realizes that the city is based on making movies. These characters, if they were real people, would probably be working for the movie industry in some way if they lived in Los Angeles, because that is the main employer in the town! Los Angeles is not a good cross-section of an American city, because they are the only ones to mass-produce well-known and high-grossing films as their biggest export.
     Let me use an analogy: New York is the center of the publishing in America; virtually all major publishers are located in New York. Additionally, New York hosts a large number of famous and aspiring writers. However, New York has several other industries, including finance and insurance. If New York's major industry was publishing, it would seem very weird, if not a self-indulgent and inaccurate representation of the world, to set the majority of these published books in this version of New York that is populated by nothing but writers and those that serve writers.
     Los Angeles, you need some new interests.