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.
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.
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...
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.
"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...
Like , fully gay? Or is it more like 50, 75%? I don't know this for a fact but I'm thinking I could probably have / see a fair amount of dude on dude stuff if I got to see / have regular girl on girl on girl and dude stuff.
tbh i think pan may be more fun for everyone but the ol' meme is gay so went with gay and i imagine this is the widely inclusive gay for all that fun stuff
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.
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 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.