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What’s to stop a split business operating on a nod and a wink?
by hsbauauvhabzb 3y ago
What’s to stop a split business operating on a nod and a wink?
- BlueTemplar 3y agoCompetition ?
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoI’m not sure you understand how running a business at a loss works.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoYou mean something that is illegal to do ?
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoI’m not sure that it’s illegal to run a business at a loss?
- BlueTemplar 3y agoThat might depend on the jurisdiction ? See the recent news about France allowing exceptionally to sell vehicle fuel at a loss.
- hammock 3y agoIt is if the intention is to drive out competitors. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/predatory-pricing.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/predatory-pricing.asp
- nabla9 3y agoTwo separate companies, two separate interests. Also. Anticartel enforcement between separate companies is settled law and straight forward. Feds do that every day. So do Europeans.
- adfigonioni 3y agoThis is already illegal. So, the answer is simple: take every penny from the executives and throw them in gen pop. I understand that we let our owners get away with worse without doing anything to stop them. Our current government can't even stop Tesla from committing mass murder, chocolate companies from enslaving people, or tobacco companies from deliberately poisoning children. But the laws are on the books and the solution is no mystery.