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Even if you don't care about Hollywood, movies, or entertainment generally, you should care about this deal.
What’s happening to Hollywood is the same thing happening everywhere else in America: money triumphing over everything — over talent, originality, morality, community, shared culture, and democratic accountability.
Our entire economic system rewards extraction over creation. Movie executives get paid to hollow out one of the oldest studios in the country and sell them to the highest bidder, while being rewarded with obscene wealth in the process.
This is what late-stage American capitalism looks like.
Netflix buying Warner Bros isn’t just a story about Hollywood. It’s another step in a broader pattern: the consolidation of cultural power, economic power, and informational power into fewer and fewer hands.
This is the tech oligarchy asserting itself over one of the last semi-independent creative institutions in America.
Netflix didn’t just disrupt Hollywood. Netflix reshaped Hollywood around itself by blowing up the business model that sustained studios for decades and leaving a crater behind in its place.
And now, after destabilizing the whole ecosystem, Netflix is buying the wreckage. That alone should raise alarms.
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Netflix is officially buying Warner Bros. and HBO Max in an $82.7 billion deal. Netflix will acquire the studio, including its film properties and TV divisions, HBO Max and HBO.
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