A handful of dominant firms get bigger, independent businesses lose leverage, and the people actually creating the product get squeezed harder and harder. “We’ve got that same thing going on,” he said, about farmers. Farmers like Lance used to have a dozen different companies to buy seed from; now they have two. The next day, the Writers Guild announced its own lawsuit to block the merger on the grounds that it would collapse key labor markets for its members. He chuckled and added: “When you started describing that, I sort of just leaned in, like, Where can I get my camera?