Earlier this month we noted how Disney and ESPN had sued Sling TV for the cardinal sin of actually trying to innovate. Sling TV’s offense: releasing new, more convenient day, weekend, or week-long shorter term streaming subscriptions that provided an affordable way to watch live television.
These mini-subscriptions, starting at around $5, have already proven to be pretty popular. But, of course, it challenges the traditional cable TV model of getting folks locked into recurring (and expensive) monthly subscriptions. Subscriptions that often mandate that you include sports programming many people simply don’t want to pay for.
So of course Time Warner has now filed a second lawsuit (sealed, 1:25-mc-00381) accusing Dish Network of breach of contract. In the complaint, Warner Bros lawyer David Yohai argues that this kind of convenience simply cannot be allowed.
Capitalism, domesticated by socialism, resulted in the largest growth of human quality of life and productivity from about 1930 to 1980. Then capitalism eroded the socialism and wealth inequality started to increase.
Absolutely, in USA progress ended and things began to turn to shit when Americans chose Reagan over Jimmy Carter.
Reagan was just a symptom. It was billionaires infiltration of both sides of politics that caused it. They leveraged Christian nationalism to infiltrate society. Remember when we laughed at the evangelicals and their corporate megachurches?
Maybe Reagan was just a symptom, the problem is that the choice of Reagan over Carter, marks the point where the ideology of humanism was destroyed as a major force in the American political culture. And it was turned to might makes right, 3 strikes and you’re out, and all sorts of sociopathic ideology and policies in USA.
Absolutely Christianity is a huge problem in this. But Christianity can have another more humanitarian face too, but that’s not the way Christianity in USA turned.