While this seems like the perfect synergy with a company that has too many branches and not enough business, those branches are also tiny. I'd bet employees are not enthusiastic about becoming UPS.

Becoming Radio Shack / Microcenter, as far as 3D Printing and DIY electronics, seems like it intersects with their target audience more, but they're also probably pretty short on space for that.

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cyanydeez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

yeah, their shops arnt sized to do much more than UPS style package movement.

I dont see it as a good value, but it's the only thing I see as a synergy. Otherwise it's just more garbage capitalism.

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alchemist1e9 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> garbage capitalism.

How is this defined?

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rchaud 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A few things come to mind:

- SPAC IPOs that dodge standard disclosure requirements and worsen information asymmetry. See WeWork.

- Board positions filled with CEO loyalists instead of independent directors. See OpenAI firing Altman before Microsoft reinstated him.

- Management taking seemingly arbitrary decisions that turn out to be directly linked to their own compensation. SpaceX ordering a bunch of Teslas, or merging with a distressed asset (xAI). See above point on loyalist boards.

- The very concept of leveraged buyouts where financiers borrow money to buy a company, then put the burden on repayment on the company AND pay themselves hefty management fees. This inevitably leads to layoffs and a rapid decline in product/service quality while the company is scrapped for parts.

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jfengel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Moving money around and pretending that there is more of it.

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alchemist1e9 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You mean leverage/borrowing? Pretty time tested mechanism of risk taking in free markets.

	▲	idiotsecant 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Moving money from one pile to another so that you can skim a little off the top is imaginary work and is slowly destroying the west

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smallmancontrov 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Slumlord owners of the network effect monopolies innovating ever lower investment in innovation and upkeep with ever higher increases in rent extraction, with a few nipple tassles slapped on the side to entice retail investor hype cycles.

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