With an uncertain future, will Disney pull off yet another magic trick?

Walt Disney's share price has dropped to its lowest level in nearly nine years as the company struggles in the age of streaming, causing concern among investors. Throughout its history, Disney has adapted to new technologies and challenges, from embracing sound and color in the early days to later embracing computer-generated animation. Now, as the company turns 100, it faces the challenge of streaming and investors are closely watching how Disney will navigate this new landscape.

Chickenstalker,

Stop making movies to pander to current politics. Instead, go back to making timeless movies that tell a story. Not everything must have a moral.

CmdrShepard,

What movies of theirs pander to current politics and how?

randon31415,

Maybe not be in the sweet spot where LGBQ people think Disney is anti-gay while the MAGAheads think that Disney is brainwashing them into liking same-sex.

1bluepixel,
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Sure. Disney’s main problem is streaming. It can’t possibly be the quality of what they produce. I mean, it’s not like they own half of the valuable entertainment IPs in the world, right?

comador,
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Kathleen Kennedy from another dimension is to blame…

That’s what South Park says anyway.

spacecowboy,

Shareholders need to be fired into the sun. All they care about is money, and it’s destroying society.

cmbabul,

While the big problems facing humanity are extremely complex and multifaceted meaning the solutions will have to be too, destroying shareholder/investment capitalism would be an incredibly helpful first step. It breeds apathy and self centeredness

Cocodapuf,

With the rapid improvements in the field of rocketry right now, this is quickly becoming a viable option!

partial_accumen,

If this is your stance, you should hate the company itself, not the shareholders. The company chose to go public and sell part of itself to shareholders in exchange for getting the shareholders more money over time. There’s no law or anything forcing a company to go public. There are lots of companies the get giant and still remain private. Just some examples:

  • Cargill - agriculture giant
  • Fidelity - investment/brokerage
  • Cox communications - cable/internet provider
  • Publix - grocer

A company chooses to have shareholders. If you have that hate, direct it at that company that made that choice.

spacecowboy,

Nah I think I’ll continue to hate the people that keep this charade going; shareholders. If people didn’t funnel their money into companies and then expect every possible ounce of monetary return on their investment, companies wouldn’t be firing people to stay “profitable” or cutting ingredients in favour of less quality ones.

Remember when the world sold people valuable products that lasted? Shareholders killed that.

Don’t tell me who I need to aim my ire at, I already know. The companies are shareholders themselves, so I hate them both. But only one enables the other.

partial_accumen,

Don’t tell me who I need to aim my ire at, I already know. The companies are shareholders themselves, so I hate them both. But only one enables the other.

If you’re extending the responsibility from company to shareholders, why are you stopping there? Should you not also hate anyone in the chain that benefits from the company’s profits or from the other investments shareholders make with their dividends/proceeds from stock sales? Are you sure you’re outside of this chain of benefit?

spacecowboy,

No.

partial_accumen,

No.

Cool! Keep pointing the finger of blame at others without acknowledging you benefiting. I get it. Its uncomfortable. Its complicated, and it doesn’t have an easy answer. It would be great if just “this one group” is to blame, but reality sadly isn’t that cut-and-dried. You don’t have a huge amount of hypocrisy here, but certainly some. You’re also bordering on “willful ignorance” too, but its innocent unless you’re taking actions to affect the system without understanding the impact of those actions on the system, others, and yourself.

spacecowboy,

Okay.

partial_accumen,

Awesome! Have great day!

spacecowboy,

Thanks, you too.

FlowVoid,

Customers enabled both.

Remember when people wouldn’t buy garbage that didn’t last, even if was cheaper?

Even today, you can choose to buy products that last longer than their competitors. But they will be more expensive and harder to find, so many people won’t make that choice.

jagungal,

They still have shareholders. Public trading only means that the public can trade the shares on the open market.

joshuanozzi,

Have they tried not being outrageously expensive? Maybe start by not charging for access to all their hoarded content and much higher than average to watch each new movie they release?

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