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What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?”

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Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
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Yeah - he decided he wanted a billion dollars more than he wanted his friends. All he had to do was share.

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CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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If you have to share your money for your friends to stick around you, they’re not really friends.

In addition to suddenly being a billionaire, I’m sure life in the public eye didn’t help his situation at all, especially to someone who I imagine spends/spent a lot of time online reading comments from armchair psychologists speaking about him.

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DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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Look, if someone wants to give me a billion dollars I will prove that it doesn’t turn you into a Nazi unless you’re already secretly a Nazi.

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Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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It’s more complicated then that, but still fair to say

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