{"id":188750,"date":"2026-01-12T09:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=188750"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:41:20","slug":"hmm-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hmm-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/fifty-people-control-the-culture\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Gioia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After three decades of total connectivity, here\u2019s where we stand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Four movie studios still control Hollywood.<\/li>\n<li>Four subscription platforms account for two-thirds of home movie streaming.<\/li>\n<li>Three major record labels own most of the hit songs.<\/li>\n<li>Five publishers account for 80% of the US book market.<\/li>\n<li>Just one company controls 60% plus of the US audiobook business.<\/li>\n<li>Etc. etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It may not be a coincidence that I don&#8217;t watch recent movies either in theatres or online, don&#8217;t stream music or listen to radio, seldom read recent books, or listen to audiobooks. If Gioia&#8217;s schoolbus plunges off a cliff, it would be a net gain for civilization.<span id='easy-footnote-1-188750' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hmm-4\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-188750' title='I &lt;em&gt;might&lt;\/em&gt; be tempted to save Elon Musk, who makes all the right people apoplectic.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Gioia: After three decades of total connectivity, here\u2019s where we stand: Four movie studios still control Hollywood. Four subscription platforms account for two-thirds of home movie streaming. Three major record labels own most of the hit songs. Five publishers account for 80% of the US book market. Just one company controls 60% plus of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hmm-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hmm &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-N6m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188755,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188750\/revisions\/188755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}