As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'

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BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 4 days ago

As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'

shalafi@lemmy.world · edit-2 4 days ago

Lina Kahn was the most effective bureaucrat I’ve ever heard of. We had a chance to stop these mergers, unwind monopolies, etc. Capitalism worked a whole lot better when there was competition, which in kinda at the root of the idea.

This isn’t capitalism, this is oligarchy.