Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

[@SecondThought]

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoy the video. A couple quick corrections: Dreamworks is owned by Comcast, and Disney now owns the majority of Hulu. Like I said in the video, properties change hands all the time and it's difficult to keep up, but the trades/mergers/acquisitions are always between those five giant mega-corporations.

[@justsomeoneelse5942]

Thank you for the correction!

[@jackri7676]

Thanks Comrade.

[@mcdevitt815]

And FX is owned by Disney, not NewsCorp. I'm 99% sure

[@thegreenestpotato1770]

Hi

[@jackri7676]

@@mcdevitt815 Yes

[@arttukettunen5757]

"It's not dictatotship if 1.1% control everything, only when it's under 1%" - Legal loopholes

[@kryptokingg]

Uncle Sam. That’s not what he said moron

[@AscheDjidoi]

ever wonder why rich people have so many lawyers?

[@vicgamesvt9682]

@@wundyr968 tecnhicly a dictatorship is a type of government were one person has full control over the country

[@ridiculousvic6324]

Uncle Sam. Sir this is the internet

[@matteste]

@Ivan It's not an Oligarchy, it's a Plutocracy.

[@madeline7272]

It's important to know that this isn't just media. Ever industry is like this. All the food in the supermarket is owned by a few companies.

[@garret1930]

@@TeaParty1776 supermarkets are bad for society when compared to the alternatives

[@djdoggynutellanutsack6766]

@@TeaParty1776 food is a scam

[@mohammedsdafiah4132]

TeaParty1776 do you like hot sauce with that boot?

[@garret1930]

@@TeaParty1776 It's a bit absurd to say "supermarkets or go back to the stone age, that's your only options" have you really no conception of the other alternatives?

[@garret1930]

@@TeaParty1776 yes and...? How is that related to what I'm saying? The options aren't only everyone uses supermarkets or everyone starves, the options are supermarkets, farmers markets, street markets, food banks and food exchanges, and plenty more besides. Supermarkets are bad compared to other *contemporary* methods of food distribution and acquisition.

[@TutorWindow]

"Given the illusion of choice." Good quote.

[@therantwithgrant2051]

Exactly

[@albertjackinson]

Many news channels have their own perspectives. So no. You have a choice, but not. It's a "yes and no" situation.

[@backpackpepelon3867]

That's pretty much democracy, in most democratic country at least.

[@sillygoose635]

far from the truth

[@downwithputinsaveukraine1313]

That's all choice is in a capitalist system, all choices are essentially illusions unless you're very well-off

[@andrewm8402]

We may not have state-run media, but we have a media-run state! Seriously, the fact that corporate lobbying is still legal makes for economic authoritarianism

[@Otzkar]

Lobbying in itself is important but it should happen transparently and in a regulated way were politicians don't get jobs in companys after the stop being politicians

[@XRioteerXBoyX]

@@Otzkar That's an argument that just suits the interests of the lobbying power and the recipient. Best to get rid of this "Bribery". That's essentially what it is.

[@Otzkar]

@@XRioteerXBoyX can you please look deeper into what lobbying is? Lobbying is just to make sure politicians do stupid things that would fuck over a lot of companies or industries. Sometimes I think it sucks too for instance if the coal industry gets a lot of money for shutting down their operations. On the other side there are lobbys I personally support for instance the "hanfverband" in Germany that fights for the legalisation of weed. Obviously if lobbying entails bribery it's illegal and fucked up and I think politicians who get powerful positions in companys after their term is up should be jailed but the solution isn't to get rid of lobbying it's to make it more transparent.

[@raybin6873]

@@Otzkar transparency is key point in your comment I like best.👍

[@raybin6873]

Media run state...you mean a media like FoxNews?

[@gerritclaesen]

and still Americans think they live in a democracy , what a joke

[@LouWagner76]

@gerrit, yeah controlled democracy. Or as the rich like to say, “not too much democracy.”

[@jefftube58]

You are so right, Gerrit.

[@cravinbob]

It is a Constitutional Republic. Benjamin Franklin added "If you can keep it". Looks like we can't and the idea was great, better than anything else but people are lazy. You do not want a democracy. You need to study on that, now.

[@agentchaos5751]

@Tim Baker there is still hope

[@jkgkjgkijk]

I think the words you seek are: "constitutional republic" democracy is mob rule.

[@TheCablife]

“The United States isn’t a country, it’s 3 corporations in a trench coat” -someone on the internet

[@boxsterbenz4059]

"He who controls the message controls the masses."

[@eavyeavy2864]

Capitalism is a system in which by definition, majority cant win. I wonder why majority would choose a system where they cant win. Oh yeah american dream.

[@jeaniehammer9404]

@@eavyeavy2864 hahaha good point!

[@sentientnatalie]

@@kenos911 No, it *is* capitalism, corporatism and crony capitalism are just capitalism.

[@sentientnatalie]

@@kenos911 While that's true, capitalism, whatever you want to call it for whatever form it's had, has always sucked. "Better than feudalism" is a *very* low bar for a succeeding economic system to clear. Also, look up Hakim's video "Capitalism, Not Corporatism.", and you'll see what I mean. People make the "That's not capitalism, that's crony capitalism/corporatism!" argument whenever they want to try and get people to see that there was a golden age of capitalism for ordinary people, but there never was, never has been, and never will be. Social democracy doesn't count because capitalism's still the economic system there, also see Hakim's video on that and how it relies on the export of misery for the host state to prosper.

[@boxsterbenz4059]

@@eavyeavy2864 ah yes. the solution then is socialism. name a country that has done as well as capitalistic countries under socialism.

[@flutee6162]

"Power doesn't draw corruption, corrupted people are drawn to power." -someone with common sense

[@FNLNFNLN]

Not really. It's both. Corrupt people are drawn to power, but corruption is also a necessary part of keeping power.

[@oldrabbit8290]

power doesn't corrupt a person; it just allows them to do whatever they want, without any real check.. we have many kings and emperors that, despite wielding absolute power, work to revive or to strengthen their countries.. but then we also have a lot more kings and people in power who use that to indulge themselves and fuk everyone over.. the problems is not power, the problem is that our (most of us) desires are bad, especially when left unchecked..

[@Pinkie007]

You should read the definition of “Corruption”

[@MrGiygas1]

Power can also create corrupt people

[@cv4809]

Lack of power can also corrupt...

[@z3pHyRx3]

Imo, we clearly have monopolies. Consider this: The definition of a monopoly is, as stated, "A single company dominates a market and sells a good or service with no close substitutes" I want to focus on the term "no close substitutes", because nowhere near there is an interchangable competitor for a news channel covering one specific view. Another newschannel representing a different standpoint is by no means a "close substitute" for the consumer. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is what ultimately matters. So legally this should definetely be seen as a monopoly. I am not a US citizen, but can someone go to court with this, please?

[@ocass66]

money wins court cases corporations have money! people dont have money! consumer lose every time :(

[@GhostSamaritan]

Some of these media channels are independent subsidiaries, which makes this case way more complicated. I don't know why this wasn't brought up in the video.

[@ocass66]

I don't mean to make it sound that bleak and hopeless, but serious change in anything in America will take place as a lengthy process drawn out over decades. Maybe an anti-trust lawsuit could be a push in the right direction but it's an uphill battle for anyone who wants to battle a monopoly. Lawmakers just don't seem to care.

[@rhythmjones]

It's irrelevant anyway. To consumers and regular folks, the effects of monopoly and oligopoly are exactly the same.

[@ellie8272]

Lmao do you think the court is gonna care? The court suits the interests of these companies. Basically the entirety of government is bought out by them

[@zad08]

I remember something about a guy that tried opening an internet company and being shut down by Verizon, at&t, and spectrum for trying to steal clients.

[@hydrolito]

How does one steal clients? Are they kidnapped?

[@zad08]

Offering better service in the area for a cheaper rate.

[@filenuke1055]

The complete gap between media and reality is sometimes terrifying, books like Manufacturing Consent really show you how warped people's worldviews are from the facts by companies

[@daejinvillain]

Noam Noam Noam, Chomp chomp chomp. I could eat this up all day.

[@McHobotheBobo]

Parenti's "Inventing Reality," is the OG in that regard. "Make-Believe Media," is also one of the greats!

[@GmodeFr-c9e]

Stop stealing everything they ain’t no mf ogs foh

[@kellarenna]

This is so obvious when we look at popular music today. Theres such a small number of mega artists who get cycled in and out in their different seasons. remember before the monopoly (2000's and earlier) what a vast range of artists gained popularity on a wide scale?

[@antihinduismisbased]

@Janet Baker Well, I guess you are missing out on a lot of good music. kzbin.info/aero/PLP4CSgl7K7oo93I49tQa0TLB8qY3u7xuO

[@vecvecvec]

@Janet Baker theres plenty of music popular and unpopular thats very good still! it's a VERY large industry, and the sheer number of artists makes it hard to truly monopolize. what did you used to listen to? i'm sure we could set you up with some bangers

[@timmynator8036]

@@vecvecvec you wont find any "alice in chains" or "jane's addiction" kind of artists with the current state of the industry

[@notinsane4165]

@@timmynator8036 sign out of KZbin, go to an artist or band you like, go to the suggested videos and play follow the links. It may take some time but you'll find something you like.

[@timmynator8036]

@@notinsane4165 of course there are some good newer bands but still

[@AccordionJoe1]

I am old enough to remember with all major cities had two, three, four, even five daily newspapers and just as many local TV stations. Competition helped provide real journalism. Those days, sadly, are gone forever.

[@gr8macaw1]

Joseph I still subscribe to the LATimes just to line my Moluccan cockatoos sleep cage. It is not worth reading. Only articles in it are vaccine articles and people coming across the border stories. It is useless. Most of the stuff it does publish is copied from articles from other papers. I can’t afford the New York Times and the Orange Co Register is only read by right wing nut cases.

[@mysaria7641]

amazing how a system praised and “designed” for fostering competition does the exact opposite

[@Simboiss]

On the other hand, no one reads the newspaper anymore.

[@50733Blabla1337]

@@mysaria7641 NONO ITS THE GOVERMENT REGULATION! Or some other dumb shit......

[@Azrael_Equinox]

Well, just in America. Here in the UK, you can't travel from one city to another and not expect to see 5 different newspapers.

[@kluhnahgoh5911]

Just a minor correction, DreamWorks is owned by Comcast not Disney

[@whistleblowerer6527]

aaah ok, that change everything.

[@jualisco8267]

@@whistleblowerer6527 he did say minor

[@whistleblowerer6527]

@@jualisco8267 sure. But for me. It changed everything

[@hueynapalm]

That caught me off guard. So major correction.

[@vi0let781]

Noooooooo shrekkkkkk

[@jacubboy]

At this point they function as monopolies. It just doesn’t fit the definition of monopoly created decades ago.

[@subjectively_objective]

Next step is Wall-E

[@McHobotheBobo]

Cartels, oligarchy, capitalism. One in the same, an inevitable outgrowth of the political-economy

[@tbrown5657]

"Collusion" is the best word for what's going on now.

[@evanfreund5651]

I don’t think it’s that bad. Of course competition should be encouraged and collusion discouraged more, but in the video it felt as if 5 big companies were bad just because it isn’t enough. But even if just 2 truly compete it would still drive prices down and get rid of most Monopoly effects we’d want to avoid. And when he said how they wouldn’t merge further do fear of triggering anti trust laws I thought “good, the anti trust laws have done their job”

[@squaeman_2644]

Monopolies exist thanks to government intervention

[@SirNucleicAcid]

Second Thought deserves more viewers. Your arguments are well structured, well explained and backed by data and examples. The videos are not too long, which makes them easier too consume.

[@leonardoives674]

Every single upload I'm like "wow this is the best educational video I've seen on this platform"

[@TheMommaDiary]

I’m doing my college essay on the media controlling public opinion. I’m here. Now I’m leaving a comment to hopefully get into someone’s recommendation.

[@professionalcommentstealer5271]

How did it go?

[@jakefastf]

The media is what is tearing our country apart. That essay is of vital importance

[@thabokgwele5268]

So how did it go?

[@cluc5239]

Howd it go

[@f1r3hunt3rz5]

Yooo please say that you are safe, nothing bad happened to you right?

[@unibyte5175]

Second Thought, you're doing great work here. Please keep spreading awareness of these pressing issues.

[@Gorindakia]

Imagine owning Nat Geo and Fox News at the same time. They’re actively trying to destroy eachother

[@phreenom]

I just lost entire levels of trust in Nat Geo finding out they're a Newscorp property. Anything associated with Rupert Murdoch is tainted.

[@saooran7364]

It's so good to have full control of both antagonistic talking points huh

[@Gorindakia]

@@screwsinabell if there’s money to be made on both sides, why limit yourself to just one?

[@Gorindakia]

@Fred Wills I don’t think all of fox is is it? Just 20th century fox, the branch that makes movies.

[@tonydai782]

@Fred Wills Stand alone, though still owned by the Murdoch Family, just the same as News Corp

[@syalutsa]

`The “Rule of Five” in which five companies control ninety percent of a function, business, product or raw material is true for every major resource of commodity on earth, as documented in the book Who Owns the Earth. This applies to oil (largest revenue source) as well as (guess what is number two?) coffee! As well as most minerals, agricultural crops, and even blood and body parts for transplants. That is our world.

[@rutvin8763]

A more extreme version of the Pareto principle

[@zynel413]

Don't forget most music that isn't independent. Warner, EMI...

[@backpackpepelon3867]

No wonder msm trying so hard to demonize and sideline huawei. Its not a part of them.

[@downwithputinsaveukraine1313]

Humanity has become a virus of greed and if we were smart, we'd wipe ourselves out.

[@rogercameron6912]

Great - then double that number, and tell Antitrust to break up these companies, then monitor it until the public is satisfied.

[@candycane1921]

“You’re only being offered the illusion of choice” ..........

[@jeaniehammer9404]

You can have anything you want but just make sure it's capitalism & neoliberalism👍

[@tomw2885]

The fact that two on screen representatives can support and/or attack each political party whilst being owned by the same company is a hilarious example of how democracy has been bought and paid for.

[@亲爱的爸爸]

yes, if you try to attack corporation by strike or something, you can feel what the democracy is

[@Osama_Zyn_Laden]

Everyone says we are ran by the corporations And the media, but nobody ever asks themselves, who are they? It's not like they're just robots or lizard. People or something they're human beings. I could tell you exactly who they are. But I would get banned from KZbin again. Look into who started fractional reserve, banking and what kind of people they were. They all have one thing in common. They are 2% of the population, but they own 90% of the media corporations and make up 90% of our government. They Funded the majority of Donald Trump's campaign. They funded the majority of Joe Biden's campaign. But there still hope. We could make it a 110.

[@obedientconsumer5056]

It's almost like we live in a corporatocracy where the rich rig the system for themselves...

[@1LaOriental]

Obedient Consumer Almost like??

[@ohyeah3365]

1LaOriental I think that was sarcastic

[@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh]

and they are all owned by a kosher tribe which are the 1%.

[@janetbaldock3425]

It’s not almost. We do live in a corporatocracy!!!!

[@Mythhammer]

@@ChaplainBobWalkerBTh .001%...

[@arnufodelacruz1654]

They only allow you to see hear what they want you to.

[@lildrillion]

Yes, and think about since we were little kids all the television and subliminal messages

[@jeaniehammer9404]

Spot-on!

[@Dango428]

This is why I pirate everything Not really, I'm actually broke

[@ScudForEver]

I feel your pain bro, I feel it

[@sparkles7111]

same dawg

[@willeanalien31]

So know any good websites dude?

[@ScudForEver]

@@willeanalien31 cuevana, piratebay, rutracker.

[@Tales41]

Wow to think I took my pirate life for granted

[@tomvanbeek925]

Here in the Netherlands we have state-television and commercial-television. The three state-television channels are organised in different semi-private broadcasting corporations: NOS (neutral news) NTR (neutral), KRO-NCRV (neutral/chistian), BNNVARA (socdem/youth), AVROTROS (neutral/liberal), VPRO (liberal/progressive), MAX (elderly), EO (evangelical christian), PowNed (populist), WNL (right-conservative), HUMAN (philosophical). The basic commercial channels (if you pay more you can get more (foreign) channels) are basically all controlled by two corporations: RTL and TALPA, both are centrist/neutral. One of the richest men of the Netherlands is the owner of TALPA. I think our system is better than you have in the US, although the media is controlled by the state and two corporations, the state makes sure that there is a diverse offer of programmes. The system gets critic however, this is mostly the right-wing populists who say the is a lack of conservative media.

[@oliver24x]

It's "kind of" the same in Denmark, although the state channels and their different media (DR) has begun getting a hard on for the leftist ideals, I'd no longer consider them neutral.

[@oliver24x]

Sweden is f'ed beyond belief in many ways, I'm quite sad for the situation there.

[@elainemccarty1195]

Don’t forget that those same companies also own a ton of products like Dannon yogurt Quaker Oats, good life.... it goes on

[@jakefastf]

One man makes a choice and it affects billions of people. An upper echelon that shouldnt exist but does

[@rahadityap2375]

You forget Kellog, Nestle, Monsanto and of course, BlackRock company

[@leeoswald668]

Finally someone speaks about this 👍 Normal Americans say: oh, we have freedom of speech, it's a free country, no propaganda, no state run media

[@nuvisionprinting]

No the media runs the state.

[@daisuke910]

It's only an illusion to control the citizen, not enough to motivate them to do anything about it collectively.

[@joachimthielker3132]

All media, especially TV, are the most powerful tool to manipulate the so-called "public opinion". Giving them up to a handful of business corporations was a fatal error.

[@SomeGuyWhoPlaysGames333]

But do have freedom of speech, even if we do have propaganda.

[@leealexander3507]

Any of us who have the slightest bit of intelligence and a half way decent education already know this. In fact, we are rapidly becoming a failed State and have already become a fascist county.

[@borgcube8349]

Another great video, You have really changed some of my perspectives on politics with your recent videos and I thank you for that.

[@SecondThought]

Thanks so much! I always love hearing that my content makes a difference.

[@johnakridge2916]

Yup recently looked this up and I tied all broadcast companies to the same companies. Disney media, Comcast, Turnerboadcasting inc, warnermedia ect

[@Maddogg-p6i]

"I'd be surprised if you've ever heard of news corp" Australia where news corp own 60-70% of news media: 😑

[@jordanread5829]

It is the same in the UK too. There is a saying, if you are in the UK, US or Aus and you lose the favor of Rupert Murdoch, you can kiss your political career goodbye.

[@sadaurkar]

it's not all bad. we have youtube now, which is full of independent news creators.

[@BobSmith-em8gm]

If you're searching for an unbiased oasis of 'truth', ABC is not as independant as you're led to believe, FYI.

[@亲爱的爸爸]

news corporation produce news that people want to hear. this is capitalism world, bourgeoisie control the world, but some rebels cause some trouble to bourgeoisie

[@republicunited2183]

Stop watching most media and go back to learning life skills.

[@Peonies925]

AMEN!👏🏻

[@bloodyknuckles1477]

@@Peonies925 Awonen

[@Doubleaa500]

@@bloodyknuckles1477 NOOOOO!!! Lol

[@jillphilips3788]

A Farmer Has Good Soil But He Is Cheated. In Our Bible.

[@juzzlookin]

@@bloodyknuckles1477 ffs can't you even spell it.

[@binjuiceconnoisseur]

I'd like to make a browser plugin that tells people which corporations own the website you're on but I don't have the coding ability to do that yet :(

[@eyyy2271]

That's be brilliant

[@EggBastion]

Like the vidIQ extension for KZbin _not a bad idea._

[@ai-bino]

I assume you may have to manually add that in for every single company website, but it can be done.

[@noahnavarro1008]

That’s an incredible idea

[@cakeisyummy5755]

Will that ever be made?

[@generalsodapop3530]

I wish this video specifically reached more residents of the States. People need to know how skewed the information we take in is.

[@fatalshore5068]

Second Thought 2017: How many badgers lengthwise would it take to reach the moon? Second Thought 2020: Eat the rich.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

It's so heartwarming to see little channels grow up.

[@crackedemerald4930]

noo the rich are full of coke

[@Aryasvitkona]

@@crackedemerald4930 steal the riches coke and sell it

[@greenstorm5568]

Nah, we just gotta change the laws and how they work. Destroy the left's media!!

[@亲爱的爸爸]

no, they just tell the truth, it's the people listening want to eat the rich after know the truth

[@ClarenceEwing]

This helps explain why, as Bruce sang, there's "57 channels and nothing on." This also is why it's so important for everyone to control what media they consume. Seek out, use, and support as many independent media outlets as possible.

[@亲爱的爸爸]

no way, so called independent media easily be buyed by big corporation. it's so naive when you are in capitalism society

[@nomodz4real]

"part of hulu" is my favorite sound byte so far of 2021. Thank you for this illuminating view of media

[@sicsempertyrannisvi4107]

imagine an entity professing to shed light on matters but at the same time keeps people in the dark as to who exactly

[@jakestavinsky3480]

NewsCorp sounds like a parody of a corporate media giant in a dystopian novel, not the actual US Hmm thats says a lot about the US..

[@mycro2767]

Jake Stavinsky. You need to get rid of news Corp in your country, in Australia NC has destroyed democracy by putting propaganda through for our corrupt af conservatives all day, if you want examples, I’ll send u some

[@x1plus1x]

Sounds like "Umbrella Corp."

[@SECTOR-si2cb]

Saving for later so I can see it get taken down in five months, because one of the companies got triggered.

[@placeholder1308]

they also own 2 of the 3 big music labels so they are behind a lot of video takedowns

[@antimattv]

Second thought is becoming more radical even over the last year. Hoowah!

[@theresewalters1696]

I saw this coming years ago when local newspapers sold out to ever larger ones. Also, whatever chose to read it all was the same.

[@jacobengbert8914]

The corona virus and the past year and half has radicalized me. Your switch to anti capitalist content also helped radicalize me. It was amazing watching one of my favorite science channels become openly oppositional. Thank you.

[@abdirahmanidris290]

Communism is far worse.

[@Celestialplane945]

I feel the same way. Well said.

[@g11gamer15]

I used to hear these messages while I was in college and firmly believed them. But then getting kicked into post college life left me slowly forgeting what I learned. But now, because of the over-the-top absurdity in America today, I seemed to have made my way back to messages like these. Thanks for putting out these videos in spite of corporate opposition.

[@saintbrush4398]

Second Thought, ...I'm scared of the future :(

[@dicemaster1996]

Don't be. Educate yourself. Get active. Vote. And most importantly take care of your mental health.

[@callmeej8399]

Everyone is

[@darrellandsondraholden9457]

Don't be Saint Brush - please get a Bible to read.

[@saintbrush4398]

@gillysuit2 With our healthcare system, cybernetics would cost An Arm and a Leg! *BADDUM TSHH*

[@timbaxley383]

@@dicemaster1996 Vote? can u say dominion, smartmatic or election fraud on a massive scale. Oh, never mind. United States of America is NOT "united"... GOP is DEAD. I'm watching the widespread corruption in our State and Federal government, the Judicial and Executive branches, military leadership in concert with the gaslighting media on such a scale that is unprecedented. Stephen Decatur Miller may have originated the concept during a speech at Statesburg, South Carolina in September 1830. He said "There are three and only three ways to reform our Congressional legislation, familiarly called, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box". So, if the ballot box is no longer free and fair @XTC Fatigue why vote?

[@gregfawver]

You finally sold me on curiousity stream. Including the price in your ad was a good move. Otherwise I wouldn't have clicked the link

[@kaninma7237]

Thank you for making this video.

[@m1l22]

Oligopolies at their finest

[@jackri7676]

*Capitalism at it's finest

[@totallycuterthanyou4]

Jack Ri monopolies shouldn’t exist under real capitalism because they prevent competition so that argument is a fallacy

[@georgebrantley776]

@@totallycuterthanyou4 Capitalism has no built-in way of preventing monopolies though

[@jackri7676]

@@cn2673 capital has a tendency to concentrate. if one company kicks out another in the market they don't give up that market share, rather they take it for themselves. Plus you can have monopolies over natural resources which has happened many many times.

[@sicsempertyrannisvi4107]

certain people working to eliminate their economic competitors (i.e. run everyone else out of business) are the same as collectivists and will turn out the worst tyrannical mass genociders the world has ever seen. They will not stop at millions but aim at billions

[@lasiuslord6833]

Now this, I can agree with. For capitalist systems to thrive, there *MUST* be competition. The more competition the better. These trusts *need* to be broken.

[@chris.hartliss]

Capitalism is anti-competition That's what Americans don't get, capitalism pre-chooses its winners.

[@lasiuslord6833]

@@chris.hartliss How? Hard to trust someone that is the "CEO of Antifa" XD Stop burning stuff, please.

[@shaykhmhssi3246]

The problem with capitalism is the competition inevitably needs to declare a winner.

[@edwardroh89]

@@TeaParty1776 stop taking drugs. don't trust the drugs that your pharma companies are giving you bro

[@edwardroh89]

@Blue_Ducky no need to feed the troll

[@andrewandy55431]

Excellent content Second Thought! Thought-provoking and excellent information!

[@dundy96]

Love the ideas and arguments presented by the channel. Just wish sources would be provided when facts or statistics are being presented. I would love to look at some of these resources myself, and I imagine others would too! Keep up the great work! 😊

[@newyorkfan16]

You're supposed to conduct your OWN research, rather than be spoon fed information through a video.

[@dundy96]

@@newyorkfan16 wtf is your problem? I can do my own research AND watch video essays at the same time. I can request sources when claims are being made that I don't yet believe or disagree with. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

[@newyorkfan16]

@@dundy96 WHY REQUEST THEM IF YOU CAN TYPE YOUR OWN SEARCH QUERIES!?!? I really don't understand people who has to be spoon fed information 24/7, the is age of the internet. There's an ENORMOUS difference between "research" and "fact-checking" What YOU want is information to be fact checked, so that it lines up with your politics, or the politics of your group, or authority figures, usually LEFTWINGERS request such an accommodation, due to being in public school eventually realizing that information and intuition doesn't come from themselves, it comes from what self-appointed authority figures TELLING THEM WHAT TO BELIEVE, THINK, DO, AND SAY 24/7...

[@dundy96]

@@newyorkfan16 Ah I see. Got it. So you clearly have a ton of assumptions about me and what I believe based on your own personal delusions. You don't know me and yet you're placing me in this box without any actual justification whatsoever. It's not worth my time talking to you. Have a good day 😊

[@ToxapeTV]

@@newyorkfan16 you seriously need to work on your communication skills.

[@exxelsetijadi5348]

i remember someone commenting this in another unrelated video it went like "a true dystopia is where you don't realize that you're in one" that honestly sounds truer than ever these days and i'm not sure if that commenter was quoting someone

[@LogicGated]

What's up capitalist bootlickers, I thought capitalism was supposed to promote healthy competition among many competitors?

[@shidfard]

The US isn't a free market. It is very manipulated.

[@nbarrett100]

This video is a little misleading, in many instances the 'big five' only own minority stakes in smaller companies. For instance, Disney only owns 16% of Vice. However, the direction of travel is clear, in ten years it will just be Amazon, Disney and Google/KZbin. They'll be a few paywalled newspapers, magazines and niche streaming services for the engaged middle class but almost everything else will be bought up. Indepdent voices will be filtered through algorithms and will only reach audiences who are already ideologically alighed to them, which will make them toothless.

[@BLTspace]

Yes, anyone who doesn't see this trajectory as awful is not paying attention or willfully ignorant... or making so much money themselves that they approve of it.

[@psinno]

Disney owns 16% of Vice. A&E Networks own 20% of Vice. Disney owns 50% of A&E Networks. Stilly a minority stake. The ownership listing on wiki is a little suspect since it adds up to more than 100%.

[@HiddenOcelot]

@@psinno the bad part of estimation is numbers dont add up.

[@atomicexistentialism8428]

Jesus Christ on a bike. I'm surprised you didn't mention the ridiculous duopoly of Airbus and Boeing in the airliner market. If airbus hadn't come along, Boeing would basically own the airliner market

[@GhostSamaritan]

United Technologies? Lockheed Martin? Market domination just means you currently have the best to offer (or maybe something like the greatest marketing). Calling everything a [number]-poly is ridiculous.

[@atomicexistentialism8428]

@@GhostSamaritan Lockheed martin is a military company, not an airliner manufacturer, the only two companies that really sell enough airliners to stay competitive are Airbus and Boeing

[@vaska00762]

While the American aircraft market was something that was originally rather diverse, the thing with Boeing, is that it managed to make aircraft that were more popular and successful than competitors throughout the years. Lockheed got out of the commercial aircraft market, Convair just kinda fizzled out as different assets were sold off to competitors as Convair struggled to keep up in the jet era. Boeing was always going to dominate America regardless. Airbus is weird in contrast. Most European aerospace companies kept going bankrupt and couldn't even keep up post war. It was fragmented and while they were good at piston powered aircraft at small scale, the jet era was just too much. This was behind a lot of the merging that lead to BAC, Aérospatiale, Fokker and Daimler AG becoming the bigger companies. Concorde and the cooperation between BAC and Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) was what gave birth to the idea that the European aerospace companies could build something to keep the Americans from monopolising European aviation. Airbus was a consortium, owned by different aerospace companies looking to pool together their resources to keep domestic aerospace engineering alive. To this date, Airbus is still owned by its constituent parts, except for BAE, which sold off its stake in Airbus as they sought to become more of a defence contractor. Aérospatiale still exists, DaimlerCrysler AG still exists but both of these are less constituent parts of Airbus, but now owners. Spanish CASA is also a part of Airbus now. Unlike Boeing, which has largely monopolised American civil aviation, through acquisition of McDonnell Douglas and other such expansion, Airbus has largely been prohibited by the EU from merging with some other European aerospace companies. Safran is a French engine manufacturer, known for the joint venture with GE for the CFM 56 and CFM Leap engines. The EU blocked Airbus merging with it. ArianeSpace is a company that operates the Korou Space Center in French Guiana on behalf of the French space agency, CNES, which itself operates the spaceport on behalf of ESA. While ArianeSpace receives most of the rocket parts for the Ariane 5 from Airbus, the EU blocked a merger between ArianeSpace and Airbus under anti-trust reasons, as Airbus is both a satellite manufacturer and payload adapter manufacturer. (Worth noting that the other two rockets ArianeSpace launch are the Vega, made in Italy by ThalesAlenia and the Soyuz, made in Russia by RSC Energia). I'd argue that Airbus ended up in the duopoly by accident. Remember, it first made the A300 in a period of time when the main competing aircraft in the sector were the Boeing 747, Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011. As Boeing's competitors in the the US either left the market or were bought out, Airbus was the only remaining competition.

[@iain3713]

Atomic Existentialism planes cost a lot to make, I guess Boeing sort of forced bombardier out, but bombardier were fucked anyways with bad management. Lockheed was just unlucky with rolls Royce and haven’t really bothered to renter the market.

[@Kromiball]

Thanks, France!

[@gwgux]

Good point, but what may help is getting something passed requiring companies to use the parent company name for anything they buy out. Basically force "Marvel" to become "Disney Marvel" and other branding to follow suit and remove the illusion of choice crafted by these companies. If a parent company can't proudly put their name on something they bought, then they should consider selling it off or spinning it off into it own company. There's a reason why parent companies like Disney don't slap their name on everything they buy out and if they can't face the reality of what it means then the fog is lifted from consumers and own any and all fall outs from that, then they don't deserve to own as much as they own.

[@omerkaya545]

A company does not "control" any share of the market. A corperation does not have "power" over its customers. The customers themselves control 100% of the market. I remember how in the 80s and 90s people complained how IBM is controlling Single-Handedly the whole Computer market. Now barrely anyone knows what "IBM" means. They also said that Toys R US, Blockbuster, Compaq, Pan American, Woolworth, Nokia, Kodak, Atari, MySpace, macy's and many many more ought to have "market control" yet they didn't and thus failed or have gone extinct.

[@toenailairconditioner7406]

This also applies to a supermarket as well. The 'hundreds' of brands you see in a supermarket are owned by about ten monopolies. And people say that the west has a free market. It's not a free market because you most likely can't buy something without helping these ENORMOUS monopolies. The few smaller businesses die because the big brands can afford to lessen the prices, something the smaller brands can't do. So, the middle and lower class is forced to buy from the bigger brands.

[@TjPhysicist]

I once saw a graphic, that I really wish I could find again. It was a bunch of "mind maps" each one corresponding to a particular industry (media, fashion, technology etc) on the bottom you had all the companies corresponding to that industry, and you mapped their owners as you went up, and in EACH map by the time you hit the top there wasn't more than maybe 4 or 5 boxes left. we've all seen these mind maps for various industriess like Food, Media the staggering thing about this graphic was that was a combination of all these mind maps, it included ALL the industries, EVERY SINGLE industry has this problem. Fashion, Media, Groceries, Stores, Technology, Telecom, Banking, Pharma, Cars, Beer, Healthcare...and if you really look into it, each mind map is international, and chances are depending on where you live that list of "companies that own everything" is much smaller.

[@jiggzstarr]

This video and channel is so important in our times. I'm surprised they allowed their algorithm to recommend this video. Thank you for this important content and please don't let the demonteziations stop you.

[@E4439Qv5]

They don't mind a few people like us learning this secret. Most still won't know or care about any of this, or realize how it affects them.

[@jiggzstarr]

@@E4439Qv5 that's the sad truth brother. This should be mainstream instead of the garbage that's out there currently.

[@martinmlakar5093]

If you haven't read it, I highly recommend "Manufacturing consent" by Chomsky and Herman that is about this specific topic. It shows how corporate ownership results in news stories being completely in tune with the wishes of the ruling class.

[@himalkoirala4371]

Read 'Inventing reality' by Michael Parenti as well. :)

[@samcassidy6793]

I got nebula and curiosity stream and i love it! Would love more nebula creator recommendations from anyone, preferably with straightforward content such as this ☺

[@Emilia-wv1kj]

I am a recent journalism school graduate. During my undergrad I asked my professor, after a viewing of Good Night and Good Luck, why news orgs are owned by millionaires and/or corporations and i'sn't that a conflict of interest". So then I followed up with "shouldn't all news orgs be owned by the journalists who work there?" I got laughed off and talked down to.

[@powerfulsamuel1565]

Don't let them get to you

[@亲爱的爸爸]

oh, you're get into a socialist idea, worker own company

[@henryquinn6917]

Teddy Roosevelt is probably turning in his grave now :(

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@jjjmail both actually wanted to break up monopolies

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@jjjmail it’s also why I liked the Roosevelt’s.

[@klausbrinck2137]

Even Stalin is probably turning in his grave now...

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@klausbrinck2137 F Stalin

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@peter scheunemann and?

[@ianwatling3930]

shoutout to my media teacher who's having us watch some of your videos for class

[@jctew1]

Thank you for the work that you do! Few people are so dedicated to providing valuable, unbiased information. You're doing a great job!

[@janossarkezi]

well ... not just media ... Volkswagen --> Skoda, Seat, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini ... different brands, one Company ... why waste money on competition or innovation when you own all brands in all price ranges ... ever baught a soap? Chances are the brand you bought belongs to the allmighty Unilever company

[@lupusdei0819]

It's also like this is the death industry. Funeral homes of mom and pop have all been bought up almost completely, but kept their names so it still looks local. But it's why funerals have become way more expensive. It's very sinister and monopolistic on death.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

I wish it wasn’t completely impossible to leave the country. Most immigration processes are Draconian at best, literally impossible at worst. And that was BEFORE the Coronavirus response forced a near-global travel ban.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

@David Ullman So basically people with "Daddy's Money" get the luxury of moving to somewhere with even a tiny modicum of empathy for human life. cool.

[@fraktur960]

Why don't you just illegally cross the border man? I'm sure any country would happily enter their country if they don't just call them Fascist racists Nazis and other buzz words like liberals do.

[@BlitzkriegOmega]

@@fraktur960 because people without a Visa get deported back to their home country, then jailed. and American Jails means you're now Slave Labor (read the 13th amendment)

[@shadow_7881]

These videos are so informative! I've learned a lot more than I ever have in school. 🙃

[@jonathanobrien3251]

If television is classified as a weapon a smartphone is classified as........

[@robertwinslade3104]

This is a massively important topic; the media monopolies NEED to broken up in order to preserve democracy

[@亲爱的爸爸]

it's not media monopoly, it's monopoly capitalism. I know many people don't want to admit it,haha

[@Azeratos]

In every single industry, Capital concentrates itself exponentially, ever increasingly, constantly constantly constantly. Those companies that are NOT ruthlessly exploiting their workers and making as much money as possible are destroyed by companies that are.

[@jonmarcmondor]

Seriously some of the best content on youtube here goddamn

[@potatoblues]

i literally thought about second thought the other day and realised they haven't posted in a while- and THIS SHOWED UP ON MY RECOMMENDED

[@Aldaker_]

I love these new anti-capitalist videos recently ❤

[@masondouglas99]

Ik, I learn alot of crazy stuff

[@Victor-tl4dk]

It's really concerning how much power the people at the top in the US have and people think they don't work together and do each other favors which are shady/hard to catch.

[@rayallensjumper]

We need a modern day Teddy Roosevelt. Break the cancerous trusts

[@BobbyBlockable]

We need a modern day Lenin more like xd.

[@Playerofakind]

@@BobbyBlockable no

[@aweirdredguy3885]

@@BobbyBlockable yes indeed

[@rayallensjumper]

Bobby Block look at what Teddy R did for this country mans is the goat president

[@bastian8343]

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[@AnonymousFreakYT]

A few minor corrections - National Geographic is no longer owned by Fox, it's owned by Disney. (Or, to be more precise, the television network is owned by Disney, the magazine and other non-video part is co-owned by Disney (73%) and The National Geographic Society (27%). 20th Century Fox - the movie studio - is now owned by Disney. News Corp retained ownership of the Fox _Broadcast TV Network_, Fox News, and other "TV channel related" media. Confusingly, the creation of TV shows was/is split between "20th Century Fox" and "Fox" - some TV shows that air/ed on the Fox network were made by 20th Century Fox, and are now owned by Disney, while others were made by "Fox TV Studios", and remain owned by news Corp. Both of these are why Disney+ has 20th Century Fox properties, including the Simpsons and National Geographic Channel content. (And the full rights to the original Star Wars trilogy - the rights were split between Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox. Now Disney owns them both.)

[@snetmotnosrorb3946]

What a mess. Still didn't get it.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

@@snetmotnosrorb3946 Yeah, pretty much. Fox just needs to be flushed down the toilet. The Disney parts should all dump the Fox name, the remaining parts should just go away.

[@KumaChikara]

"THIS ISN'T CAPITALISMS FAULT, IT'S BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A REAL FREE MARKET" - Some smooth brain Libertarian.

[@chinggiskhan6678]

Nah dude, it's because we don't have checks and balances on monopolies.

[@KumaChikara]

@ALex Jaones Gb2/pol/

[@KumaChikara]

@ALex Jaones Keep huffing that Copium as you are deplatformed and forced into extinction m8.

[@trumpisnotmypotus5272]

@@KumaChikara some scrawny wimp talking about making people go extinct? Cringe

[@3mtech]

Some in Texas might disagree

[@GEASTYNESS01]

Ah yes, thank you! I was waiting for a video on this. Hoping this goes viral so more are aware of how unwittingly trustful they are of US media corps and their properties. Honestly, I've tried my hardest to get my parents to understand this but have failed so many times. Maybe this video will be informative yet succinct enough to sway them.

[@SecondThought]

I hope it helps!

[@robertcarpenter7486]

Forget it. They have their own world view and not that many people like to challenge it. They prefer to live out their lives the way they see it.

[@lukei7291]

Commenting to get this recommended is praxis.

[@Multi_Plays]

Yes!

[@heccingcommie4942]

Yes, and replying to this for the same reason is also praxis

[@AvgJane19]

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[@comradebanana129]

Nice and second thought liked this

[@lukei7291]

@@comradebanana129 Yea I saw!

[@TJ-vl1ff]

Large corporations should be nationalised after they reach a certain market finish line, then broken up into smaller companies and privatised back to the middle class.

[@rajivbhar7299]

Cardi B should start a media channel called WAP USA. Music videos, video games, Anime commentary etc. More than welcome

[@eyyy2271]

I like your thinking

[@rajivbhar7299]

@@eyyy2271 WAP USA can also be a lobbying organization at par the State Policy Network (refer to prwatch.com)

[@Blake.Spider]

so a corporation owns both rotten tomatoes, a movie review platform, and universal pictures? no wonder Universal always ranks on top despite not being that good.

[@Moodboard39]

Warner bro discovery, and nbc univseral own it

[@gregoryhenry8464]

Hey congrats on a million!

[@tomtaylor1786]

Laughs in Australian where Murdoch's newscorps owns nearly 70% of Australian media outlets (he owns 150 Australian newspapers and they still dominate the way in which people attain information)

[@dailyrant4068]

Yep and you still have brainwashed Australians calling out "enemy states" like Russia and China while pretending they are "free intellectual thinkers". It's a big irony that most people in this world, whether in a "democracy" or "communism" are nothing but sheeps and pawns in the hands of the elites, but they get so worked up emotionally pretending they are righteous and what not.

[@DreQueary]

People really need to watch PBS and C-SPAN in the U.S.

[@timdao9381]

C-SPAN is straight facts but most Americans need to be entertained.

[@drewweber1724]

I'll be sure to watch this again over on Nebula.

[@boehrb]

This is the first KZbin video to successfully motivate me to check out Nebula and CuriosityStream. For good reason. Well done! Monopoly sucks.

[@cravinbob]

Zillow = monopoly and wants to buy your house.

[@Hanlb]

I think you should talk about _Manufacturing Consent_ by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman.

[@Паша-к4я]

Read "Imperialism as highest stage of capitalism" by Lenin

[@alexsmith2910]

I love this content. It's so important.

[@aaronbrustle919]

would be interesting to expand the analysis to big tech companies (GAFAM)

[@Fortunefellas]

Great video!

[@rhyswong8976]

And how these 5 companies are ruled by ONE party.

[@jeremyvoel-pel357]

Yep, the leftwing, liberal bias indoctrination party

[@wilsonanderson1415]

@@jeremyvoel-pel357 Fox News are far right fools

[@jeremyvoel-pel357]

@@wilsonanderson1415 that's one right wing media outlet compared to the rest of every mainstream media news network, left leaning hollywood, all these companies like google, youtube, facebook, twitter, netflix, disney, etc quite nearly everything is injected with raging liberal, left wing nonsense and there's a giant portion of america that is sick to death of it. Not just conservatives, but people in the middle as well.

[@ManticoreSigma]

Stop demonising Krakens and their tentacles! They are squishy, innocent sea creatures and you know it! #krakenaredecentpeople :D

[@Mii.2.0]

Sounds like anime.

[@亲爱的爸爸]

corporation controlling is not a problem, the real problem is corporation is not controled by workers, the corporation is not democratic. workers all over the world, unite!

[@jefftube58]

This is why you must learn how to think for yourself- I know, a dangerous thing - but if you don't learn how to think for yourself you'll never know you're being controlled.