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https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/ https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741...

by moolcool 10mo ago

giraffe_lady 10mo ago
Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.
- tgv 10mo ago
  Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
  - venturecruelty 10mo ago
    "Not poisoning rivers since 1997"
- mortos 10mo ago
  Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.
- scruple 10mo ago
  > Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.
skeeter2020 10mo ago
What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.
- teeray 10mo ago
  “Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
- ezfe 10mo ago
  Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.
- xp84 10mo ago
  Also funny is how many of the companies listed as top-level parts of the conglomerates, like Viacom, Paramount, Boeing, SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX, etc. have since conglomerated further in the years since!
- dvngnt_ 10mo ago
  > A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month. They're pretty close with the headcount though
jimbokun 10mo ago
> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
qnleigh 10mo ago
> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”
padjo 10mo ago
Wow, I get two cookie banners and an unclosable full screen pop up on that link. The web really has become garbage.
jakub_g 10mo ago
> “Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example,” he said. “Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald’s promote the video release of the movie in their respective stores with mail-in rebates and Happy Meal action figures. It’s a win-win scenario.” Apart from McDonald's, we're not that far!

https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/ https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741...

giraffe_lady 10mo ago

Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.

tgv 10mo ago
Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.
- venturecruelty 10mo ago
  "Not poisoning rivers since 1997"
mortos 10mo ago
Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.
scruple 10mo ago
> Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

skeeter2020 10mo ago

What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.

teeray 10mo ago
“Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”
ezfe 10mo ago
Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.
xp84 10mo ago
Also funny is how many of the companies listed as top-level parts of the conglomerates, like Viacom, Paramount, Boeing, SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX, etc. have since conglomerated further in the years since!
dvngnt_ 10mo ago
> A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month. They're pretty close with the headcount though

jimbokun 10mo ago

> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

qnleigh 10mo ago

> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

padjo 10mo ago

Wow, I get two cookie banners and an unclosable full screen pop up on that link. The web really has become garbage.

jakub_g 10mo ago

> “Take Paramount-Viacom-ABC-Disney, for example,” he said. “Disney makes the movie, Joel Siegel of Paramount-owned ABC-TV gives the movie a rave review, and Disney subsidiaries Blockbuster and McDonald’s promote the video release of the movie in their respective stores with mail-in rebates and Happy Meal action figures. It’s a win-win scenario.” Apart from McDonald's, we're not that far!