To close our affordability series, I wrote about captive pricing. If you're at the ballpark or the movie theater and have no choices for concessions, they've got you. But it's more widespread than that: ambulances, auto sales, airports, anesthesia... it's becoming inescapable. Trapped at the Concession Stan...
Just because it's not the Ellisons doesn't mean it's benign. The consolidation of Hollywood is the problem. State AGs need to block this and signal they'll block a Paramount-WBD merger as anticompetitive too. prospect.org/2025/12/05/n... https://amanita.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3&cid=bafkreidciwq2jf2n3rwams5n3oliscntujzktdrmltx3cclfna77f3ubmi