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Buyouts or Consolidations are interesting. Consumers needs competition to continue bringing out the best of both sides of any business sector. A Yahoolgesoft would likely make consumers hate it. Public businesses are under great pressure to continue growing, and thus "if you can't beat them, buy them" seems to hold true. The oil company mergers in the late 80s/ early 90s is another good example, as was Standard Oil Company in the first part of the 20th century, up until the US government stepped in and split the company apart, and funny how it started to come together again. I feel I may live long enough to see how that industry deals with a limited amount of product, oil, and how we as consumers deal with the lack of product. It'd be like McDonald's running out of cows. Hmm...what can we use to make a beef patty out of that isn't beef, but looks, smells, and tastes like beef? Maybe that's a bad example because there are still cows and a McDonald's burger doesn't look, smell, or taste anything like a burger I'd make.
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