Netflix is now worth more than $100B

Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by p10_user on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:51AM (#16211330)

I think the “us vs them” mentality is too strong here. Don’t you think these billionaires are just as against each other (if not more so) than against the common man?

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Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by xapata on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @08:19AM (#16213318)

I don't think they'd need to intentionally cooperate. In fact, one of the worst motivations could be competitive status-seeking. A few billionaires trying to go to space is good. What if 10 of them do it?

Read about Fordlandia. It's hard to measure the economic impact of Ford's obsessions on Detroit.

> us vs them

I'm not sure where you got that sense. Capitalist societies tend to create log-normal distributions of wealth. There's no threshold where you can say one person is "us" and the next on the curve is "them".

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Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by losteric on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:33PM (#16215383)

Not at all - other billionaires are opponents, not enemies... they work together to continue extracting wealth from the common person.

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Re:Netflix is now worth more than $100B by majewsky on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @02:54AM (#16211799)

If that is so, why are cartels a thing?

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