Culture has already fractured, and it's mostly due to YouTube/Twitch/TikTok, and not so much about the siloing. I'm not sure I agree that it's not a competitiv

Culture has already fractured, and it's mostly due to YouTube/Twitch/TikTok, and not so much about the siloing. I'm not sure I agree that it's not a competitive marketplace though, just look at all the players! What I would agree with is that it's not consumer friendly, and I agree no one will pay $500/mo, but a lot of people have been paying $100-$150 for cable for decades, and for that budget you can still get a lot of good stuff without needing to get everything. All that said though, the vertical integration is pretty interesting because this is how the movies studios were set up in the first half of the twentieth century. They owned the production (including actors as highly paid indentured servants) and the theaters. It was only in 1948 that anti-trust action was taken to force them to divest theaters. That's super interesting because it's hard to imagine that type of anti-trust action today.