Activision Will Be Jilted if Microsoft Deal Blocked, CEO Kotick Says - Slashdot

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• It rarely, if ever does anything good for either the company itself or the end users of that company's product. Most of these acquisitions should be blocked.

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    ... then what do you say to the thousands of workers who might (directly and indirectly) lose their jobs because the parent company was unable to otherwise secure the vast amounts of funds necessary to continue business operations "as usual"? Will you argue that it's bad management, or recognize that external factors were at play which impeded the management's ability to continue operations without liquidating assets due to the financial impacts of government regulations?
    
    Every legal decision is a double-

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      The government always is at fault for creating the current regulatory environment. None of these companies would exist in their current form without that regulation.

      I mean, you can argue that M&A might save a company, but i'd argue back that no one buys a money losing operation and then just dumps funds into it. You make changes, which means letting go of people, usually. So did you save anyone?

      The expectation we'll have semi-permanent employment with a game company might need some review. Economic

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      I would say they were fucked either way, since after a merger there is typically a bloodletting of HR/accounting/overhead functions, and they were always going to be the first to go. Either way they're on the job market, probably going to a competitor anyway.

      Mergers and Acquisitions should in almost every case be blocked for the greater good to save what tiny bit of functional capitalism we have left.

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    For examples, simply refer to WhatsApp and Instagram. Why innovate when you can just buy the competition.

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  And very likely grateful for that fact.

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    Yeah, me too.