> They were already a publicly traded corporation. Their interests have never been aligned with yours fundamentally, they've been aligned with a fiduciary duty

> They were already a publicly traded corporation. Their interests have never been aligned with yours fundamentally, they've been aligned with a fiduciary duty to make profit for shareholders. Literally nothing about the profit motive has changed. This is a trope that needs to stop. Public companies are not alike and the fiduciary duty is only a very high level one that can be used to justify both squeezing every customer as much as possible to losing money to support growth. What the shareholders want matters and an acquisition changes that completely.