I hate how these dudes are so fixated with money that they just worship or salute anything whenever they hear big sums. I just started and I’m at the Netflix/Warner segment and all I’m hearing is “I can’t get mad at that”, “big dogs”, “salute” and praise like recap of Netflix history and what they could do - cool, then Marc said “some people are unhappy though” and instead of letting him present a different perspective they immediately got dismissive. Joe was like “who could be mad at this? Don’t politician me to death Marc” - and that’s just disappointing and anti-intellectual. You don’t have to disagree with the acquisition but at least hear everything first.
Consolidation is seldom good for the consumer. Less competition and a monopolized market allows the big dog to run unchecked - even more so than what they already do. There’s always loss of jobs as positions become redundant/obsolete and Netflix will have their own people they want to run shyt. Creators have less outlets to platform their stuff and give them fair deals, and that’s without even broaching Netflix wanting to kill the cinema going experience. There are genuine arguments/considerations to be had, but Ish and Joe like “ah, it’s the old guard that’s mad”, “the world is changing”