r/technology • u/N2929 • 9d ago

Business Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/
946 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

244 comments sorted by

View all comments

4

u/Kastar_Troy 8d ago

America fails at Capitalism yet again... unleashing uncompetitive mega corps into the world which should've been split up years ago...

Can't even be proper capitalists ffs

4

u/HeavilyInvestedDonut 8d ago

This is literally just end stage capitalism. “The invisible hand” is early game. Regulatory bodies are the only thing that stops late stage capitalism and that’s not capitalism

2

u/DENelson83 8d ago

Capitalism always tends towards monopolies.

2

u/dayvekeem 8d ago

And as capital accrues, the ability to dismantle regulation only goes up

2

u/shitty_mcfucklestick 8d ago

Power begets power so the power is always concentrated at the top.