"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage The only people benefitting from thes

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage The only people benefitting from these mega-mergers are the handful of VC's and the C-levels involved. Everyone else suffers harm, including the government, which has reduced influence on actual governance. Money talks, even in Communism, and huge mega-corporations also impact China's government's ability to govern. I expect them to limit these sorts of arrangements more strictly than the US.