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https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741...

>>moolco+(OP)
What's funny is that Onion article uses "a blockbuster $112 billion deal" because in 1998 a figure that high was so preposterous it helped with the parody. They'd need to add a few zeros today.

>>skeete+d5
“Dr. Evil, this is 1969, that kind of money doesn’t even exist! It’s like saying you want a gajillion bajillion dollars!”

>>moolco+(OP)
Lockheed-Northrop-Boeing-Pepsico is an excellent joke all on its own damn.

>>giraff+Jf
Remember, that's just a subsidiairy of the Sheinhardt Wig Company.

>>giraff+Jf
Also a pretty subtle one, this article was written after Boeing and McConnell Douglas merged a year prior.

>>moolco+(OP)
> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

>>giraff+Jf
> Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the Franchise Wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

>>skeete+d5
Inflation adjusted it would be about double since 1998 - $223 billion, this Netflix deal is for approximately 1/3rd that amount.

>>moolco+(OP)
> Bill Clinton, chief executive of U.S. Government, a division of MCI-WorldCom, praised Monday’s merger as “an excellent move.”

>>skeete+d5
Also funny is how many of the companies listed as top-level parts of the conglomerates, like Viacom, Paramount, Boeing, SBC-Ameritech, Bell Atlantic-NYNEX, etc. have since conglomerated further in the years since!

>>skeete+d5
> A spokesperson for the newly formed Bank One-Chase Manhattan-MCI-WorldCom said the company plans to cut 92,000 jobs this month.

They're pretty close with the headcount though

>>tgv+ni
"Not poisoning rivers since 1997"

>>moolco+(OP)
Wow, I get two cookie banners and an unclosable full screen pop up on that link. The web really has become garbage.