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Isn’t this the exact reason why we have antitrust and monopoly laws?
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.
True, yeah.
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.
"Ford, we are twelve; oh, make us one,
Like drops within the Social River;
Oh, make us now together run
As swiftly as thy shining Flivver."
-Aldous Huxley “Brave New World”
weyland-yutani lore confirmed
that’s a weird Wayland extension
BFR Big Fucking Corpo
Would it eventually be sold and renamed as X.com? One south-african enterpeneur is pretty tempted.
I like the irony of capitalism slowly evolving into communism.
Our Company :tm:
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Anyone seen Markiplier’s Lethal Company playthrough videos?
We looove the companyyyyyy
The companyyyyy
MomCorp
Capitalists: Capitalism creates competition which lowers prices and increases innovation!
Also Capitalists:
Capitalism only ever innovates in the extraction of more profit.
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Hey market capitalism, you ok?
Hey man, I can do some competition any time I want. Just lemme do a little more central planning first.
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.
Their defense will be that they need to merge to be able to compete against Disney. The sad thing is they’re probably right. Even post merger their market cap will be less than 1/4 of Disney’s market cap.
Really, we need to destroy Disney.
I HATE CORPORATIONS I HATE CORPORATIONS I HATE CORPORATIONS
I HATE CORPORATIONS CAPITALISM I HATE
CORPORATIONSCAPITALISM I HATECORPORATIONSCAPITALISMftfy
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)
The problem is shareholders; The fact that extracting money out of the company is prioritised over the stability of the company. This leads to unstable companies which are vulnerable to shit like this.
WB would not be verging on the edge of bankruptcy if it was privately held.
Extracting money out is the epitome of capitalism. The entire point.
The problem is capitalism.
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%
which will shortly change its name to “plus max”
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.
I think they’ll call it Warner Brother’s MAX DP+
“Because we’re all getting DP’d tonight!”
bill and ted voice MAXIMUM PARAMOUNT PLUSSSSS
or
rush hour renegades voice MAXIMUM PARAMOUNT PLUS COMIN’ ATCHA
Pawabrodi
Paramount Warner Bros Discovery: Pa Wa Bro Di
Then Disney will only need to negotiate once when they buy them in 2025
supposedly discovery wants in on comcasts interest in spinning off nbcuniversal too
Man, fuck Discovery!
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
Consolidation of all the market is fucking great for the economy /s
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
They do have balls for the first time in a while, but it’s not just on them. The FTC sued to block the Microsoft and ActiBlizz merger, but the judge sided with MicrosoftActiBlizz.
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
I’m not totally sure I agree with that…
One monopoly on streaming means they’d probably jack the prices up a lot since they would be the only legal way to watch things (and theyd probably crack down on piracy even more)
Multiple streaming services at least helps keep prices at a reasonable level
Hard agree though that exclusives are the worst thing streaming services adopted
One with everything will be far more expensive than millions with one thing, and if you disagree with the service you wouldn’t be able to switch to another one.
If it were enforceable I would, but “no exclusivity” is a pipe dream.
