Just Six Corporations Remain

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

According to Forbes managing editor Russell Belanger, at the current rate of mergers, there will be only one corporation in the world by 2000.

Not far off.

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CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 270d (4 replies)

All restaurants are Taco Bell

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 270d (1 reply)

Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr.: "Fuck You, I'm Eating."

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 270d

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 270d

What's this? Oh my god! It's Yum Brands with a steel chair!

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 270d

There's an unusually nice Taco Bell Cantina where I live, and I 100% always imagine I'm in that future.

Sunspear@piefed.social · 13 pts · 270d (4 replies)

Ah a classic~

Many modern Onion articles are barely more than their titles, but this one was worth the read in its entirety.

Good4Nuthin@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 270d

Yeah.. I miss me some Herbert Cornfeld and Jim Anchower.

explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 270d (2 replies)

This was back when the paper boy would throw you an Onion hot off the presses every morning.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 270d (1 reply)

Which you would then tie to your belt.

OopsAllEarios@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 270d

Which was the style at the time.

salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 270d

But seriously, how many are there left now? Eight?

Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 270d

Watching Alien Earth right now and its really hitting home.

salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 270d
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 270d

The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.