Isn't this the exact reason why we have antitrust and monopoly laws?
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we have antitrust and monopoly laws
Well yes, but actually no.
With the current administration, there might actually be some push back.
Might.
Pretty sure the current admin is too busy tripping over itself to help Israel continue carrying out genocide in Palestine.
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Read up on Reagan and anti-trust. He essentially said that monopolies that resulted in lower prices were good for consumers and that the government would turn a blind eye to them. Hasn't been much change since then.
monopolies that resulted in lower prices
IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT DAYO~
When you own the market, you either:
- Dictate the price as the sole provider
- Are forced to set the price because of your natural monopoly status (as a utility for example; until you stuff the utilities commission or regulatory capture your way into even controlling that)
- Have to break up to create competition, release patents, or otherwise be forced to allow competition which leads to a lower cost alternative
I hate the gipper. Fucking cunt, and he can't fucking act either.
He knew. All capitalists know. They don't care, because the goal of capitalism is to profit — therefore profit is the one and only true guiding virtue.
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If Disney was allowed to buy Fox I don't see why this couldn't happen too
Shhh! If you keep talking like that "they" will start looking for you.
Hahahahah
Everything will be owned by one company, The Company, eventually.
Warhammer 40k got it wrong... We won't praise the god emperor. All corporate CEOs will merge into one being. The Company will be God, leader, and employer to all of humanity. Lesser companies will be grown and then merged with him to sustain him.
That's what's behind the wall in Lethal Company...
Shadowrun got it right.
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Capitalists: Capitalism creates competition which lowers prices and increases innovation!
Also Capitalists:
Capitalism only ever innovates in the extraction of more profit.
Disclaimer: I own Paramount stock, and worked at Paramount for a time.
Disclaimer 2: It is sadly non-voting common stock because fuck this fucking timeline.
I can think of nothing worse for the common good than having YET ANOTHER ENTERTAINMENT MERGER. I AM IN CONTINUOUS ANGUISH. STOP IT.
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I HATE CORPORATIONS I HATE CORPORATIONS I HATE CORPORATIONS
I HATE ~CORPORATIONS~ CAPITALISM I HATE ~~CORPORATIONS~~ CAPITALISM I HATE ~~CORPORATIONS~~ CAPITALISM
ftfy
But it's specifically capitalism. A corporation doesn't have to use capitalist principles to operate. It just has to be incorporated under local law. Worker coops are still corporations.
The problem IS capitalism, not corporations. (though allowing giant monopoly ones I'm sure is its own ill even outside of capitalism)
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Introducing Paramount Max Plus, now for the low low price of 49.95 per month for the first 6 months!
Afterwards it costs a monthly blood donation + the regular fee 200%
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So if this go through is the resulting app going to he called MAX-Paramount+?
But seriously fuck Warner-Discovery+, David Zaslav , and John Malone, just more conservative billionaires trying to force their political and religious ideologies onto the rest of us.
In the article you linked with "force"
"I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”
It's too fucking early for me to be so enraged. I'm torn between throwing up, punching something, or throwing up on something I'm punching...
I think they'll call it Warner Brother's MAX DP+
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Then Disney will only need to negotiate once when they buy them in 2025
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i get max for free because they said im billed through youtube yet im not actually billed so if this means i also get star trek free ill take it
but seriously fuck zaslav and mergers
Man, fuck Discovery!
hear me out, what if they all merged back into the public and somethingsomething fully automated luxury gay space utopia?
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When I saw this in the news, I thought they had already merged for some reason. Either way, fuck this. FTC should block this if they had any balls
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Maybe they can all merge so that we can get down TO ONE OR TWO FUCKING DECENT STREAMING SERVICES INSTEAD OF THE MILLION SHITTY ONES THAT EXIST NOW
Better to have a million shitty ones with no exclusivity than to have one with everything
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So I'm hearing that any new Star Trek shows will only last one season and all of the rest will be removed from streaming.
Consolidation of all the market is fucking great for the economy /s
I don't give a fuck. "oh but my shows, oh they will close into a walled garden". Who cares. There's lots of good, if not better content elsewhere. Hell, there's lots of better things to do than sit and just consume the garbage they spew.
Except these are more than just content companies. They are empires with tons of shell companies and child companies under their roof.
And it giving any company that much control of a market is a death sentence. If they begin to crash, the entire economy around that will crash. And it will ripple.
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This is a great time to support people like Olan Rogers who have worked for all the majors and are bucking the system. He funded his latest animated series pilot through kickstarter and is getting funding for the rest of the episodes now. Imagine that: paying creative people in advance and bypassing the corporate bullshit. He's even left kickstarter behind now to take payments directly. https://godspeedseries.com/
Also with mentioning when Alan Tudyk did the same with Con Man, a comedy tribute to the Firefly fandom that was fan-financed for 2 seasons.
Helluva Boss doing quite well too.
You may not hear about shows like these because promotion is just not worth throwing any money at... The following is already grassroots and the powers that be make it tough to compete against their ads. But there is quality stuff being made by directly funding film makers. There just needs to be more ways of finding funds for up and coming talent.
(And there needs to be a better place to release non network shows than YouTube, but that's a whole other can of worms)
I can't wait when there will be just one company owning everything. It will be great.
the present and the future are a neoliberal dystopia
if they fucking ruin kate and lucy on ncis hawaii i swear to fucking god
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I’m ready to depart this timeline.
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