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Lina Khan @ the FTC was the best thing about the Biden administration, for me.
by abixb 3mo ago
Lina Khan @ the FTC was the best thing about the Biden administration, for me.
- timcobb 3mo agoI miss the Biden administration
- jacquesm 3mo agoLarge numbers of people outside of the United States probably do.
- mushi_shi 3mo ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 3mo agoNo, just people that prefer the largest economy and military power in the world to be as stable as possible.
- Gigachad 3mo agoChina and Russia are loving things right now.
- nozzlegear 3mo agoI miss him from inside the United States too.
- platevoltage 3mo agoThat's a sad thing to have to say, but yeah.
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- Danox 3mo agoI miss every administration back to Roosevelt.
- timcobb 2mo agoI dunno, Nixon, :thumbsdown:
- dakolli 3mo agoThe president who helped kil 15k children? Why do you miss him, he should be in the jail cell next to trump.
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- timcobb 2mo agoNot here pls
- smelendez 3mo agoI think failing to take advantage of the charisma of both Lina Khan and Janet Yellen, and not making them public-facing economics gurus like Alan Greenspan or Larry Summers historically were, was a huge tactical mistake by Biden.
- tiahura 3mo agoYellen was objectively the dumbest Treasury Secretary ever. When everyone and their dog realized inflation was getting out of control, she thought it was transitory. She literally gets an F- as an economist. And some former Roomba employees may have thoughts about Kahn.
- Grombobulous 3mo agoKahn was right about Roomba. Amazon was going to torpedo all the superior competition on the Amazon platform where almost all robot vacuums are sold in the US, plus as the e-commerce monopoly, Amazon was going to instantly have access to an army of cameras inside people’s homes to analyze personal information related to purchase preferences. IMO allowing Roomba to hit chapter 11 was still a better option for the consumer than handing them to Amazon. They’re still in business as an independent competitor on the market, consolidation was successfully avoided. Yellen, I don’t have much of an opinion on, but she absolutely wasn’t alone in that opinion (the nuance of that opinion being inflated by this hyperbole), and the treasury is a lot less involved than the federal reserve in doing anything about inflation, anyway.
- kaonwarb 3mo agoiRobot is now 100% owned by Shenzhen Picea Robotics of China. (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1159167/000115916726000006/exhibit991.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1159167/000115916726...)
- Grombobulous 3mo agoYes, that's a very good company to be the owner of iRobot, because they are just a robot factory and not a near-monopoly e-commerce retailer. They are essentially on equal footing with other robotic vacuum manufacturers. iRobot didn't go out of business or get absorbed into a larger company lowering competition in the marketplace. It's also not the FTC's job to ensure that companies, especially ones with zero/trivial national security or domestic labor force value, remain under domestic ownership. Amazon itself is not really a "domestic" company, it's publicly traded. Anyone from any non-sanctioned country can buy shares of Amazon.
- elictronic 3mo agoI miss her. Actual government for the people.