/co/ do you think this could ever happen in our lifetime?
What would it look if it did happen?
>>78556311
I seriously doubt it.
Do you know how many things Disney owns?
>>78556311
Well, if you consider the fact that Disney was on the verge of bankruptcy about 30 years ago, I suppose it'd be possible for it to get back to that point within our lifetimes. But it'd require trends drastically changing and Disney royally fucking up. They didn't have Star Wars and Marvel back then, for one.
>>78556311
No. They have a monopoly on the entertainment industry due to it having no regulations. Now will they eventually destroy the American economy? That's plausible.
>>78556311
>gets bought out by Dreamworks
>>78556311
I want this to happen so fucking bad.
>>78556379
Why
>>78556379
Jim Henson actually had the opportunity to buy The Walt Disney Company when they were in trouble.Now his Muppets are owned by them.
>>78556311
it has been predicted that in the future all media entertainment will be owned by disney and all food chains owned by tacobell
>>78556311
Too-Big-To-Fail™
Disney will make billions off the Star Wars and Marvel films, and there is also their animated films and Pixar. They will stay afloat, but Hollywood could easily bust with every company making 200 mil budget films. They are gonna hit flops.
>>78556404
because people think that multimillionaire companies are ruining the world because they have so much money, also they should give money for free so assholes who don't like to work get paid for doing absolutely nothing.
>>78556379
Yeah, those bastards. How dare they bring fun vacations and quality entertainment to the masses?
>>78556354
I keep thinking about this. With all these companies climbing higher and higher, the legs holding the whole thing up are bound to break.
>>78556407
I don't think I'd want to live in the universe where Jim Henson gets to make the decisionsag what the fuck, yes I would
>>78556487
Oh fuck off shill. The fact is that Disney propagates an anti-straight white male agenda in every single one of their products and due to their scope, can get away with it completely unopposed onto of getting PRAISED for it.
Disney commits cultural genocide on a daily basis and people are giving them money for it. It's unethical, immoral, and leading us down the path to the fall of humanity all for the sake of a few more shekels. This is not OK and Disney can't keep getting away with this.
>Owns marvel, star wars, ABC, ESPN, theme parks around the world, and most of the biggest works in fiction
nah. The fact that they own ABC is enough to keep them afloat
>>78556536
>Implying anyone who dares disagree with you were a shill
>Implying being a shill wouldn't be the best damn job possible
>>78556487
Think is, if there is no middle class, re economy tanks and all that money becomes worthless.
>>78556546
The theme parks cost more than they make directly. Their main value is positive brand associations.
>>78556536
> Disney propagates an anti-straight white male agenda
Huh. No wonder The Magic Kingdom is such a utopia.
>>78556536
wow you're even crazier than the retard you're replying to.
How much money would it take for a company to by a country?
Not as long as they keep making extremely entertaining movies and theme parks.
>>78556607
Why buy a country, when you can make a world from scratch?
>Not wanting Disney to buy half of Australia
>Not wanting Disney to terraform that barren wasteland
>not wanting to immigrate to Mouse country
>>78556607
Disney probably does have enough money to buy one. Can you imagine a Disney World the size of a country?
>>78556487
>multimillion
>he thinks that monopolies aren't harmful to the free market
You severely underestimate the size of Disney.
>>78556311
If it does, I call dibs on Dreamfinder and Figment
>>78556656
I actually wanted to write a novel about that sort of idea. An entertainment owning it's own country
>>78556354
>>78556512
>disney
>destroying the American economy
That would be like Coca-Cola tanking, sure if there were years of financial mismanagement but Disney has diversified to the point where they are too deep into too many things for it to really matter what even happens in their flagship enterprises becasue it's just a facade at this point.
>>78556659
Btw, is there a trillion dollar company out there? Just curious.
>>78556751
Not yet, but Apple is one of the closest at around $700 billion. If the world economy continues to grow at its current rate, there could be a trillion dollar company around 2025.
>>78556311
This came dangerously close to happening during the 70s.
>>78556493
Disneyland is one of the most evil places on earth but other than that I agree with you.
>>78556354
>monopoly
No, they don't. Not even close.
>>78556512
You have a bizarre idea of how much Disney is actually worth and how stock market economies work.
Remember in 2008 when there was a huge crash, and the financial institutions had to be bailed out with taxpayer cash because President Bush decided they were too big to fail, and then the bailouts had to continue because every time it looked like they might stop the markets "wobbled" again, threatening an even bigger crash?
Disney had nothing to do with that. That was all on the financiers offering unaffordable loans to people who could never pay them back, then selling those loans on to other investors (who expected to be buying the loans that would be paid off, but obvious don't have the opportunity to check them in advance and have to take a lot on trust). Remember that? It happened because of the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush reliance on the "invisible hand" to regulate the markets rather than using state or government instruments for oversight. Thousands of people knew what was going on and participated willingly and about four went to prison.
Disney could be swallowed whole many times over by the value of the money lost in that crash alone, to say nothing of the value that remained in the companies that survived.
>>78556826
Jesus. Apple? Just wow.
>>78556536
Is this pasta? If not it's about to be.
>>78556890
It was smart to make an mp3 player that was trendy overpriced. The ipad was a status symbol not an electronic.
>>78556888
Name me another company putting out 11 movies next year.
>>78556887
Only losers go to Disneyland, Epcot is for cool people
>>78556718
Then just for you I won't write a novel about that.
>>78556925
If you don't know what a monopoly is this conversation is pointless.
>>78556659
You and every other poster here thinks Disney is big and powerful.
hohohoho. Everyone knows how powerful and how influential Comcast is. let's run through what they own
>Xfinity
>Movies.com
>NBC Universal
Universal Studios
NBC and their sister networks including MSNBC, and NBC Sports Network
>Universal Parks
>Part owner of the Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Team and their Stadium
But here is the biggest thing that sets Comcast from Disney & Time Warner.
Being a Internet Service Provider, A Cable Company and a Telephone Service Provider.
^
This alones makes Comcast more powerful. Disney may have Star Wars, Marvel and more but right now at this very second there is someone on 4chan shitposting on another board through a Comcast Connection.
You can't beat that.
>>78556887
That's why you go to Disney-WORLD not LAND silly. One is a resort with theme parks in it and the other is a theme park masquerading as a resort.
>>78556925
Most of them. It's just that Disney is the only one with a strong enough brand title for it to mean anything.
>>78556888
>money lost
I don't know shit about this sort of stuff, but what does this mean?
Some CEO lost billions and billions of dollars under their couch cushion? Did it all just never really exist in the first place?
>>78556956
No one said they were the only monopoly, there are a few. The point is it's completely unregulated, and they already have formed somewhat of a cartel by deciding on what every theater has to charge during the weekend. It will only get worse.
>>78556994
Most of Disneylands rides are better versions of the ones at Disney World though
cept maybe Splash Mountain
>>78557013
Name one.
>>78556956
It was more impressive when General Electric owned NBC
>>78556311
Are Disney, Google or Apple powerful enough to purchase their own small country?
>>78556888
>It happened because of the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush reliance on the "invisible hand" to regulate the markets rather than using state or government instruments for oversight.
I'm quite amazing how people can in the very same post list (inevitable) results of "using state and government instruments", aka failing enterprises bailed out with taxpayer cash, and then complain that there is not enough government regulation. Newslfash: taking money from successful operations and giving it to unsuccessful is a feature, in fact a core feature of government regulation, not a bug, as history of socialist states proves. Never mind that American markets never actually stopped being heavily regulated for many decades and this somehow did not prevent the crash at all and did not result in any problems for those responsble for it.
>>78556407
everyone could have bought it before The Reluctant Hero from Paramount came and saved Disney from death.
Hell Marriott Hotels & Resorts wanted to buy Disney could you imagine a hotel company running a Media Company
>>78557141
Apple probably
>>78557328
It would basically be run like it is now with an even heavier foccous on toys and theme parks. Imagine it, Disneyland Paris is renovated and brought up to the same standard as Disney world but every Pixar movie now has Mt Dew and Doritos product placement. Oh and they never buy Star Wars, instead they invest in a stable of hip young directors like Michael Bay and M night shamalamaman
>>78556923
>tfw the ipod classic is still the best no-compromises mp3 player on the market even though it's no longer on the market
>>78556408
>and all food chains owned by tacobell
Only after they win the Franchise Wars.
>>78556888
>Government is paying businesses to fail
>Surprised when they fail to satisfy their demand
This is the invisible hand in action.
>>78556311
Thanks OP, I needed a laugh.
>>78556311
they own ESPN which is like 30% of your basic cable bill so no.
>>78557243
TLDR; competition is key for capitalism to work, and regulation is necessary to keep power in the hands of the consumer.
Regulation isn't perfect, but it's better to have it than not. The free market is fantastic when all the conditions are just right, but it still needs maintenance to keep it working efficiently.
The problem with big business and monopolies in general is that they can remove competition from their market, which only hurts the consumer. If a company or a small group of companies corners a market,then they can exert regulatory pressure akin to that of the government. When a business is able to prevent competition through monopolization, the consumer suffers more than they would if the government had enacted constraints on the market to prevent monopolization. This is because business, inherently, is self serving and for its own preservation and only has incentive to provide quality service/products provided that consumers have the power to jeopardize their bottom line.
>>78557141
Disney already has their own mini-country in Florida
>>78558156
>yfw Disney is also /sp/
Its like were brothers but our brother pretends we don't exist because he's embarrassed
>>78556493
Jew pls
>>78556311
Disney's most profitable thing is ESPN and their viewership was down like 10 percent this year. Also ESPN's content is complete crap and cable subscribers are only going down.
But they're not going to go bankrupt.
>>78556888
>Government is retarded and bails out failing businesses
>Government should have more power over regulating businesses.
>>78557141
you can't buy countries.
>>78556311
Bankruptcy? The company that influeced congressmen to change copyright laws just so their shitty mascots wouldn't fall under public domain? The company that owns the studios that shit out the biggest sellers year after year? (LucasFilms, Pixar, Marvel, etc)?
lol
>>78559889
>you can't buy countries.
But you can rent a country, see Liechtenstein
>>78556311
Maybe once the whole capefilm, sci-fi shlick gets worn out on the masses then maybe but even then Disney has a massive amount of reserve cash at their whim. So it would takes some time.
>>78556407
That neve was more than a pipe dream. It's not even mentioned in DisneyWar, which is the definitive chronicle of the Eisner years.
>>78557328
AOL wanted to buy it instead of Time Warner in 2000.
>>78556926
As someone who used to work at EPCOT I concur.
>>78560789
even more ironic Comcast actually wanted to buy Disney out in 2002 and Eisner almost agreed.
>the poor caring about the rich
MURRIKA FUCK YEAH
>>78556923
>trendy overpriced
This right here is why the meritocracy is dead and capitalism is a farce.
>>78556311
Disney cannot go bankrupt because they pander to the demographic that spends the most on Gynocentric media, twats and beta males. With that pandering? Impossible for Disney to go bankrupt.
Even if Gynocentrism is diminished it won't stop simps from supporting the House of Mouse.
>>78557036
Universal:
>Ride Along 2
>Hail, Caeser!
>My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
>The Boss
>The Huntsman: Winter's War
>Neighbors 2
>Conner4real
>Warcraft
>The Purge 3
>The Secret Life of Pets
>Bourne 5
And that's just through July
Warner Bros:
>How to Be Single
>Me Before You
>Midnight Special
>Batman v Superman
>Barbarshop: the Next Cut
>Keanu
>Going in Style
>The Nice Guys
>The Conjuring 2
>The Legend of Tarzan
>Lights Out
Again, just through July
Disney, for comparision:
>The Finest Hours
>Zootopia
>The Jungle Book
>Captain America: Civil War
>Alice Through the Looking Glass
>Finding Dory
>The BFG
>Pete's Dragon
>Doctor Strange
>Moana
>Rouge One
12, for the entire year.
>>78565020
>Remaking Pete's Dragon
What for?
>anti-straight white male agenda
what? where is this agenda shown? where is the proof of its existence?
