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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 8857071" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>Do you personally know anybody who works at the level I'm talking about? I do.</p><p></p><p>Let me tell you, three properties with five mortgages between them, three kids each going to $50k/year private school so they can go to a college that's <em>much</em> more expensive, a sailboat/airplane/other expensive money-pit of a toy, twice-yearly international vacations and probably at least one ex-marriage requiring alimony and child support buys a LOT of playing it safe.</p><p></p><p>Ruining a brand of something minor like Sewer Sharks? Sure. It's a value with limited remaining value and can be discarded and no one will care.</p><p></p><p>Screwing up Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering or D&D?</p><p></p><p>They literally cannot afford it.</p><p></p><p>Success at that level is a set of golden handcuffs and until they're ready to cash out (and they cash out later and later all the time, because those monthly expenses keep piling up -- very few "wealthy" people live as frugally as Sam Walton allegedly did), they cannot afford to not be able to land another job after their current one ends.</p><p></p><p>Take David Zaslav, hated by nerds for what he's doing to DC, Cartoon Network, etc. He's not destroying stuff because he hates fun (although it's likely he does hate fun, too), but because he needs Discovery/Warner Brothers to survive at all costs. If that means burning a Batgirl movie with a cast of mostly fresh faces and a few cameos by older actors, he'll do it. If it means taking Infinity Train off of streaming, he'll do it.</p><p></p><p>He is <em>not</em> going for the cheap quick hits, because "the guy who bankrupted HBO" means he won't ever be able to pay the mortgages on his five or six mansions and his kids will have to leave Stanford and Princeton mid-year and he won't get cut any breaks on the alimony.</p><p></p><p>These are not irrational monsters, as much as people want them to be. They're <em>rational </em>monsters, which means their potential damage is much more targeted and strategic.</p><p></p><p>A <a href="https://youtu.be/xzMUrB-Um1Y" target="_blank">good clip from Silicon Valley that explains this</a>. Warning, there are few f-bombs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 8857071, member: 11760"] Do you personally know anybody who works at the level I'm talking about? I do. Let me tell you, three properties with five mortgages between them, three kids each going to $50k/year private school so they can go to a college that's [I]much[/I] more expensive, a sailboat/airplane/other expensive money-pit of a toy, twice-yearly international vacations and probably at least one ex-marriage requiring alimony and child support buys a LOT of playing it safe. Ruining a brand of something minor like Sewer Sharks? Sure. It's a value with limited remaining value and can be discarded and no one will care. Screwing up Pokemon, Magic: The Gathering or D&D? They literally cannot afford it. Success at that level is a set of golden handcuffs and until they're ready to cash out (and they cash out later and later all the time, because those monthly expenses keep piling up -- very few "wealthy" people live as frugally as Sam Walton allegedly did), they cannot afford to not be able to land another job after their current one ends. Take David Zaslav, hated by nerds for what he's doing to DC, Cartoon Network, etc. He's not destroying stuff because he hates fun (although it's likely he does hate fun, too), but because he needs Discovery/Warner Brothers to survive at all costs. If that means burning a Batgirl movie with a cast of mostly fresh faces and a few cameos by older actors, he'll do it. If it means taking Infinity Train off of streaming, he'll do it. He is [I]not[/I] going for the cheap quick hits, because "the guy who bankrupted HBO" means he won't ever be able to pay the mortgages on his five or six mansions and his kids will have to leave Stanford and Princeton mid-year and he won't get cut any breaks on the alimony. These are not irrational monsters, as much as people want them to be. They're [I]rational [/I]monsters, which means their potential damage is much more targeted and strategic. A [URL='https://youtu.be/xzMUrB-Um1Y']good clip from Silicon Valley that explains this[/URL]. Warning, there are few f-bombs. [/QUOTE]
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