Capitalism is an economic system that literally incentivizes and rewards sociopathic traits and behaviors.

This kind of shit is simply inevitable under capitalism.

I’ve enjoyed piefed a lot so far. I think it’s a good choice.

This means the would-be buyer will pay WBD billions of dollars if the deal is not completed.

There was a super interesting Money Stuff (Pay Now, Merge Later) recently about this kind of acquisition structure that allows the seller to keep the money even if the deal gets blown up by antitrust. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.