[lbo-talk] a question about the movie business

[socialismorbarbarism]

SA: "I guess the idea would be for production companies to gang up and
form a vertically integrated studio, both producing the movie and
supplying the money..."

My, my. Ain't that the formula for some moneyed and aggressive cabal
of "entrepreneurs." I'm more partial to the historical precedent of
"the talent" ganging up to control the means of production:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Artists

I don't want to romanticize this; the wonders of the free market tend,
over time, to make such experiments all but indistinguishable from
standard investment-based stockholder corporations. The communitarian
origins of some well-known corporate names can be interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amana_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Spray_(cooperative)

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:30 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andy wrote:
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