Tim Wu

And frankly, you want to talk about good tech over the last 20 years.

How about, you know, not having to wait until your show comes on?

That's a form of efficiency I can agree with.

And I think it would be a tragedy to have these two companies who are often so oppositional combined into one.

I think culturally it would be a great mushification of

At the economic level, just to continue on this, I think it's usually going to be those two companies who are bidding for the most interesting shows.

So if you had a new version of White Lotus or something or The Wire, who are going to be bidding for it?

It's going to be Netflix and Warner, HBO, Netflix or others.

So, you know, the elimination of one bidder

is just the definition of a loss of useful competition.

So yeah, I think it's pretty straightforwardly illegal.

I don't think it's that complicated.

Corey, you looked like you wanted to jump in on that.

Tim, one thing I was thinking about while I was reading your book was the metaphor you use of a gardener.

That the way to think about economic regulation and antitrust and a bunch of the different buckets of solutions we're talking about is like a gardener who is trying to prune certain species and plants from taking over their garden.

And the gardener has to make judgments.

And, you know, there are some decisions you make as a gardener where you don't want blight getting all over your garden and killing everything.

Right.

But others are made for aesthetic reasons and others are made because you want to have native species and not invasive species.

And there are all these sort of decisions being made.