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So has the stage been set?

Anyone have any insight?

How are the small guys suppose to compete when giants are merging?

 

[Aim64C]

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Interesting choice of words.

However, sometimes a single opponent is far easier to fight. Rather than fighting a hydra of like-minded companies, allow them to all merge into one entity who, for any criminal actions, can have their assets seized and organizational structure routed, freeing up the smaller powers to auctions under new laws to keep those entities regional.

Just a thought. Not really much beyond just being a thought.

 

[kimb]

We wouldn't have to deal with these sorts of mergers if it wasn't for the government creating excessive regulations and licensing rules that make it harder for competition to exist in a marketplace.

. . . . .
Interesting choice of words.

However, sometimes a single opponent is far easier to fight. Rather than fighting a hydra of like-minded companies, allow them to all merge into one entity who, for any criminal actions, can have their assets seized and organizational structure routed, freeing up the smaller powers to auctions under new laws to keep those entities regional.

Just a thought. Not really much beyond just being a thought.

Though I appreciate the thought behind your analogy, it doesn't seem to line up entirely. Separate corporate entities don't become an issue until they fuse into super conglomerates whose sheer size and reach can compensate for any business malpractice, incompetence, or greed. I think it's better to have a market place filled with companies competing against each other since their easier to control, and benefit the consumer the most.

 

[BenjerminGaye]

. . . . .
Interesting choice of words.

However, sometimes a single opponent is far easier to fight. Rather than fighting a hydra of like-minded companies, allow them to all merge into one entity who, for any criminal actions, can have their assets seized and organizational structure routed, freeing up the smaller powers to auctions under new laws to keep those entities regional.

Just a thought. Not really much beyond just being a thought.

That doesn't work when they reach too big to fail status, which mergers like this would pretty much insure.

 

[Joon]

Yeah, the court ruling makes it so other giants can merge like Disney/FOX.

The government needs to regulate monopolies to protect the consumer.

They would be throttled. It is nothing the can do aside file a lawsuit and prove that monopolies hurt small business.

 

[Ansatsuken]

Comcast says hiii...

 

[Central]

Government is responsible for these types of things.

 

[Donald J Trump]

. . . . .
Interesting choice of words.

However, sometimes a single opponent is far easier to fight. Rather than fighting a hydra of like-minded companies, allow them to all merge into one entity who, for any criminal actions, can have their assets seized and organizational structure routed, freeing up the smaller powers to auctions under new laws to keep those entities regional.

Just a thought. Not really much beyond just being a thought.

Not when the company distants it's product from one another. E.G when I was younger, I use to think Fanta was it's own company or it was owned by another entity. It turns out it was owned by Coca-Cola. So if something happend to Fanta, the brand image for Coke wouldn't be damaged. The different logos, Names and themes really muddy the waters up for people, even though the products/services are owned by a mega corporation.

 

[Aim64C]

Though I appreciate the thought behind your analogy, it doesn't seem to line up entirely. Separate corporate entities don't become an issue until they fuse into super conglomerates whose sheer size and reach can compensate for any business malpractice, incompetence, or greed. I think it's better to have a market place filled with companies competing against each other since their easier to control, and benefit the consumer the most.

I am not talking about an enduring structure, mind you.

Let us assume that all major companies, today, are effectively the same. They simply pretend to be different, but are owned and operated by a sort of cult that possesses the same mentality and anti-competitive view. How do you defeat such a thing?

We are not talking about "the world you know." We are talking about "the world you don't know." Why does one brother in a family, who decides to consult on aluminum businesses in China back in the early 2000s have his children in key business leadership positions, while the other brother has his family nearly wiped out after a family falling out over that decision? Why did his factory barely manage to scrape by as the industry was ravaged, while the other's highly successful factory spontaneously burned and was decided not to be rebuilt? His wife and children's maternal side racked with disease and sudden deaths, before himself simply ceasing to live one evening?

Said brother was called for by name by major companies to consult on part designs for their ability to be cast without defects or additional costs. "Dark arts" of an industry where computer modeling is only a quarter of the battle. Gone forever from America.

I'm not saying the only explanation is a conspiracy. I'm just saying... worked out well if the plan was to destroy American manufacturing. The aluminum industry is small in its size, but massive in its economic impact. Ironically, in our egalitarian society, we tend to believe that the only people who are incredibly important to business are the big-wigs. However, this is not necessarily the case. A lot of 'old arts' still exist in the world, and our fascination with 'school' and 'science' has led us to believe that knowledge has been truly liberated from master-apprentice style teachings. While not an entirely incorrect view, as much has become freely taught, there are a number of things they don't teach in school, and those 'in the know' can pin down entire industries like snipers from a tower.

That doesn't work when they reach too big to fail status, which mergers like this would pretty much insure.

Everything is "too big to fail" to someone. But this is a failure to understand the problem. The infrastructure of the company still exists. The physical infrastructure, the employees who show up to work each day.... they are all still going to be there.

You simply deploy the Marines, execute the corrupt leadership where they stand, route the senior and mid-management, then auction the infrastructure to its local market. This is precisely what is done with personal property if it is suspected of being used in criminal activity. Civil Asset Forfeiture. Under law, if you use your business or personal property in the act of a crime, it becomes the property of the local government and can be auctioned or appropriated at will.

In theory, a court can order certain things returned - the deed to property or some such thing, but cash or valuables can be almost immediately liquidated and used. In many cases of private property where this happens, the court case to challenge it would be more expensive than the loss, and so people are forced to swallow it. A company would fight it... but if their board of directors is in a military tribunal for treason, and their assets are all frozen because they were sponsoring terrorists and trafficking people (NXIVM... bigger than you know), then there's pretty much nothing they can do.

Lot of fun stuff coming. Going to be a little freaky, but it'll be okay. Get your barf bag ready, though. Lot of dirty secrets about to get exposed. Who really runs Iran? Who are the Muslim Brotherhood? Who is Khomeni? Operation Cyclone. Operation Paperclip. .... Who really (until recently) ran the U.S?

Voters... eh, well, kinda. We had the power to stop it (for a time).

 

[Yeah right]

My AT&T Internet doesn’t work. It’s been down all day. Hmmm. I think conspiracy.

 

[Aim64C]

My AT&T Internet doesn’t work. It’s been down all day. Hmmm. I think conspiracy.

Apparently, the telepathy plan is working fine.

 

[Yeah right]

Apparently, the telepathy plan is working fine.

Did I miss the joke or something is going to have to change is never easy but it can lead to positive reinforcement is the addition of stimuli not accepting any requests at the moment to moment Or the overall collections at once and for all.

 

[Aim64C]

Did I miss the joke or something is going to have to change is never easy but it can lead to positive reinforcement is the addition of stimuli not accepting any requests at the moment to moment Or the overall collections at once and for all.

That raw output of your thought process explains a lot.