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Entire economic sectors are eating themselves in their need for infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world, having no sizable unexploited markets and having conquered the board (and also setting that board we all rely on from one breath to the next on fire) with their capitalist grift, crippling those sector’s ability to even provide the goods and services they existed to provide in the first place in the process.
The capitalists know they’re running out of road, which is why they’re destroying their own machines and laying off their own talent for short term stock bumps.
“ Since David Zaslav has no awareness of culture past whatever is happening in the 90-Day Finance universe” aptly captures this. I have a hypothesis that these fuckers have been seeing lines and graphs for so long that they have forgotten that there is more to entertainment and even business than these charts. Essentially, I am reasonably sure that in pursuit of ever increasing share prices they have even forgotten what businesses were all about. They were about providing value to the consumers, not the shareholders. When they provide value to consumers, they generate profits, which is what shareholders get for their investment. Now shareholders get value for their investments, while we consumers get shit like Suicide Squad game or She-Hulk or whatever crap they can create.
What an excellent critique of David Zaslav.
It’s part of a larger self-cannibalism capitalist market trend.
Buy up all the competition, lower the quality and lay off half the industry for profit, and then sell broken garbage laughing all the way to the bank because consumers have nowhere else to go anymore.
The end goal of capitalism is to end competition.
I feel like this is missing the mark for satire, I can imagine the same article from a real click bait ‘news’ site.
Maybe an article about how Warner Bros is spinning up a new studio dedicated just to films that will be written off?
Back in 1994 a Fantastic Four movie was completed but never released purely so that the rights to the property could be kept (it was one of those “make a film every X years or the rights go back to the original holder” deals). But at least that movie was never intended to be released, so we’re not missing out on something that could have been good.
I can’t believe Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn’t included.
There’s like 1.6 jokes in this article. Should have been one of those headlines on the main page that go nowhere.
