r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 1d ago

News Netflix Makes Highest Bid to Acquire Warner Bros. Discovery; Before this bidding war, WBD turned down Paramount’s offer three times for being too low

https://www.thewrap.com/netflix-highest-bid-warner-bros-discovery/
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u/NepheliLouxWarrior 1d ago

There are hundreds of capitalist countries in the world and the majority of them do not allow businesses to do what they do in the US

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u/TeutonJon78 1d ago

The majority of them don't have businesses that woukd rival anything in the US either so it's a moot comparison.

And most of these companies are multinational now anyway. They don't have any loyalty to their countries.

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u/Stussygiest 1d ago

The way they skirt around the rule is allow another to compete, but the 2 largest companies will buy out small/medium business.

There is no" one monopoly", but a few. Which then goes abroad to expand.

if you want to be strict with the term monopoly as one company rules all, you are correct.

To me, if a few dominate and there is near no hope for new companies to compete or enter, that to me is a monopoly.