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Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

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[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 day ago (22 children)

Hmm so this entire trick of setting up companies just to be bought by mega corps appears to be not a viable strategy if anti trust law is enforced?

Edit: apparently this company was set up before sell to mega corp craze got kicked off. I don't think changes the thesis but this case study doesn't support it with the strength I suggested

Hmm as if last 30 years of corpo behavior has been essentially to maintain mega corp dominance via captured regulators and legislators

We got the capitalism alright but where is the free market at, daddy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The market is “free” to fuck you and everyone you know on the ass.

Didn’t you know that’s what “free market“ means?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do, in fact, dislike being fucked on the ass.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like it, myself, but not when it’s a major global multi billion dollar corporation doing it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The operative word here is consent haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is always the operative word. Except for those who don’t can’t and will never accept that that word exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Parasite class and their legal persons sure do have a rapist culture as their MO

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

It’s not capitalism without exploitation.

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