Imagine a shark tank, if you will — not the reality show, but a real tank with a giant shark in it. What happens when there’s a shark in a closed tank — not an open ocean, where a proper marine ecosystem is in place — with a bunch of smaller fishes swimming around? The shark, thanks to its predatory nature, eventually devours other fishes, leaving the tank devoid of any variety or diversity at all. This might sound like a sketchy analogy for the recent Netflix-Warner Bros deal, but it certainly seems to have the same storyline. When Netflix reached an agreement to buy Warner Bros in a deal worth $82.7 billion, the ‘shock’ was less about the price tag — and more about what tagged along with a hefty shopping bag. Sure, if approved, the deal would hand Netflix, which is already the world’

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