Thanks and keep up the good thoughts. I found the discussion on ethics inspiring. This represents an excellent beginning, and the good thinking exhibited by all concerned needs to be nourished and developed. In the end, all writers will benefit. I really like the mentor idea and the notion of institutionalizing that in some fashion.
Older writers have much more to contribute, and many are willing to do precisely that.
I have long wondered why writers whine and bemoan their position in the studio system without doing anything about it. As many of the article's contributors said, writers basically have had an inferiority complex that was fostered by the behemoth studio system. It will be hard, and there will be resistance, by fellow writers more likely than by the studios. Change, to them, is not good. We need the rest of the industry to respect us.