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I hope the lawnmower goes bankrupt with this and the hostile WB take over.

by mikelitoris 7mo ago

wilkystyle 7mo ago
Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.
thefounder 7mo ago
From the consumer perspective the last thing I want is a Netfli-xation of WB…
- dylan604 7mo ago
  I also don't want the next Bari Weiss in charge of WB
  - abacadaba 7mo ago
    no of course not, but i have hope that she can fix cnn, fingers crossed
    - linkregister 7mo ago
      It was good, actually, that she suppressed accurate news unfavorable to the current President, tanking ratings and the network's credibility. I want more news outlets to decline. Except of course, my favorite, which doesn't count. It says it's fair and balanced; they wouldn't lie, would they?
    - dev1ycan 7mo ago
      I hope this is satire
      - abacadaba 7mo ago
        [flagged]
- sofixa 7mo ago
  On the contrary, Netflix would have been decent because WB is bigger than them (in terms of IP, existing content, brands, etc) and would have probably (at least that's what they said publicly) left it mostly alone. And it's weird how people assume that just because Netflix produce a ton of content, all of it is low quality. A lot of it is for people half paying attention, but there is plenty of actually good stuff. Them having WB would improve them on both fronts. Nepo baby is coming with a political angle and wants control of the news media part of WB. The American media landscape is already without much competition nor diversity in political views, now there would practically be none.
  - thefounder 7mo ago
    The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda. WB has not been immune to the political angle but they at least care about their IP and produce decent content. Of course Netflix would have used WB IP and Netflix’s “state of the art” movie making machine to maximise the value of the WB IP. TBH I don’t care about the WB news media part through I’m not sure if they will really destroy it just to align with their political views. If they make CNN like Fox News the viewers will just leave. The right move for Netflix from a shareholder’s perspective would be to get into the short drama movies that are popular in China and recently the US too. That would allow them to cover the whole garbage media spectrum and make a lot of money.
    - sofixa 7mo ago
      > The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda. What political agenda? Are gays existing in movies political for you or what do you mean? And again, Netflix have to play a numbers game. They need to have enough content for people not to leave them. That doesn't mean they don't also have genuine quality content like Better Call Saul, Peaky Blinders, Kaleidoscope, etc. > TBH I don’t care about the WB news media part through I’m not sure if they will really destroy it just to align with their political views They already started, appointing a political hack to be head of CBS, and CBS have already quickly turned very politically biased. Why wouldn't they do the same to CNN?
bayarearefugee 7mo ago
> I hope the lawnmower goes bankrupt with this and the hostile WB take over. Unfortunately there is no chance of that happening. At his level of personal wealth there is no realistic scenario that leads to personal bankruptcy. In our current capitalist society once you're into the billions you're "too big to fail" and you have unlocked the infinite money glitch. The only consolation is the lawnmower is 81 and thus is going to be dead soon (even the mega-wealthy can't plastic surgery themselves out of this outcome, at least not yet) and he can't take any of it with him. But all indications point to his progeny having aspirations to be even more damaging to society than he has been.
- gruez 7mo ago
  > In our current capitalist society once you're into the billions you're "too big to fail" and you have unlocked the infinite money glitch. That's not how any of this works. "Too big to fail" can be applied to companies, but I don't know of any examples of it being applied to people.
  - bayarearefugee 7mo ago
    Please provide a list of all multi-billionaires who have somehow managed to lose any significant portion of their wealth outside of a divorce combined with bad marriage planning. And even in those rare cases, they don't approach bankruptcy. It isn't that they get bailed out by the government (like the banks in 2008), it is that at the scale of their wealth there is no realistic way to lose it fast enough to make any significant negative difference when the neutral state of wealth at that scale is to snowball ever larger (mostly because we refuse to tax it appropriately).
    - ojbyrne 7mo ago
      In the ballpark ($2-4 billion in the 1970s): https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-silver-market/ https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-...
    - gruez 7mo ago

I hope the lawnmower goes bankrupt with this and the hostile WB take over.

wilkystyle 7mo ago

Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.

thefounder 7mo ago

From the consumer perspective the last thing I want is a Netfli-xation of WB…

dylan604 7mo ago
I also don't want the next Bari Weiss in charge of WB
- abacadaba 7mo ago
  no of course not, but i have hope that she can fix cnn, fingers crossed
  - linkregister 7mo ago
    It was good, actually, that she suppressed accurate news unfavorable to the current President, tanking ratings and the network's credibility. I want more news outlets to decline. Except of course, my favorite, which doesn't count. It says it's fair and balanced; they wouldn't lie, would they?
  - dev1ycan 7mo ago
    I hope this is satire
    - abacadaba 7mo ago
      [flagged]
sofixa 7mo ago
On the contrary, Netflix would have been decent because WB is bigger than them (in terms of IP, existing content, brands, etc) and would have probably (at least that's what they said publicly) left it mostly alone. And it's weird how people assume that just because Netflix produce a ton of content, all of it is low quality. A lot of it is for people half paying attention, but there is plenty of actually good stuff. Them having WB would improve them on both fronts. Nepo baby is coming with a political angle and wants control of the news media part of WB. The American media landscape is already without much competition nor diversity in political views, now there would practically be none.
- thefounder 7mo ago
  The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda. WB has not been immune to the political angle but they at least care about their IP and produce decent content. Of course Netflix would have used WB IP and Netflix’s “state of the art” movie making machine to maximise the value of the WB IP. TBH I don’t care about the WB news media part through I’m not sure if they will really destroy it just to align with their political views. If they make CNN like Fox News the viewers will just leave. The right move for Netflix from a shareholder’s perspective would be to get into the short drama movies that are popular in China and recently the US too. That would allow them to cover the whole garbage media spectrum and make a lot of money.
  - sofixa 7mo ago
    > The good Netflix movies are small diamonds in a swamp of garbage. Most of the content is the equivalent of fast food for movies with a political agenda. What political agenda? Are gays existing in movies political for you or what do you mean? And again, Netflix have to play a numbers game. They need to have enough content for people not to leave them. That doesn't mean they don't also have genuine quality content like Better Call Saul, Peaky Blinders, Kaleidoscope, etc. > TBH I don’t care about the WB news media part through I’m not sure if they will really destroy it just to align with their political views They already started, appointing a political hack to be head of CBS, and CBS have already quickly turned very politically biased. Why wouldn't they do the same to CNN?

bayarearefugee 7mo ago

> I hope the lawnmower goes bankrupt with this and the hostile WB take over. Unfortunately there is no chance of that happening. At his level of personal wealth there is no realistic scenario that leads to personal bankruptcy. In our current capitalist society once you're into the billions you're "too big to fail" and you have unlocked the infinite money glitch. The only consolation is the lawnmower is 81 and thus is going to be dead soon (even the mega-wealthy can't plastic surgery themselves out of this outcome, at least not yet) and he can't take any of it with him. But all indications point to his progeny having aspirations to be even more damaging to society than he has been.

gruez 7mo ago
> In our current capitalist society once you're into the billions you're "too big to fail" and you have unlocked the infinite money glitch. That's not how any of this works. "Too big to fail" can be applied to companies, but I don't know of any examples of it being applied to people.
- bayarearefugee 7mo ago
  Please provide a list of all multi-billionaires who have somehow managed to lose any significant portion of their wealth outside of a divorce combined with bad marriage planning. And even in those rare cases, they don't approach bankruptcy. It isn't that they get bailed out by the government (like the banks in 2008), it is that at the scale of their wealth there is no realistic way to lose it fast enough to make any significant negative difference when the neutral state of wealth at that scale is to snowball ever larger (mostly because we refuse to tax it appropriately).
  - ojbyrne 7mo ago
    In the ballpark ($2-4 billion in the 1970s): https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-silver-market/ https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-...
  - gruez 7mo ago