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Not a good thing when it's taken to absurd lengths. See Lina Khan's attempt to block the Within Unlimited acquisition. The problem with the current administrati
by xvector 3y ago
Not a good thing when it's taken to absurd lengths. See Lina Khan's attempt to block the Within Unlimited acquisition. The problem with the current administration is that there's no good-faith path forwards to get anything done. If you have worked with the FTC recently you'd understand what a hostile clusterfuck it is.
- briffle 3y agoyou should really link to something about it that your specifying. Cause it really looks simiar to blocking Microsoft from buying Activision.. A company that makes the hardware trying to buy up all the independant software vendors and have them only make software for their hardware is getting really, really old. I think the only people that would complain are the ones who would directly benefit.
- avarun 3y agoMicrosoft plus Activision combined is about 6% of the gaming industry. “buy up all the independent[sic] software vendors” is some serious hyperbole.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoI want it to be taken to absurd lengths. If and/or when the negative ramifications of discouraging mergers/acquisitions even begin to approach the damage that encouraging them has done to our economy and society, and only then, we can consider slowly reducing the pressure against.
- xvector 3y agoM&A has done far more good for society than damage to it. A lot of human achievements are only achievable with scale. It makes zero sense to discourage a non-monopolistic M&A.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoThere are other ways to scale.