[SLL] [semi-OT] Best Buy buys Speakeasy...Why?

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007, Glenn Stone wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:00:13PM -0700, Gideon Armbruster wrote:
>>Uhm, more to the point: In what bizarro business reality does Best Buy 
>>have by purchasing SpeakEasy? Whose move is this really, and why are 
>>both/either parties doing *their* bidding?
>
...
>>That's a lot like the Port picking up a County airport for $400M less 
>>than it's worth and calling it business as usual. Something smells fishy.
>
>Corporate America *is* fishy.  It's so rotten you could call it Denmark.
>(No offense to the Danes; the reference, after all, is British.)  Folks like
>Doc Searls are trying to fix that, but it's an uphill swim... and there are
>bears in the water.  

You can't condemn Corporate America without including Big Government and
Big Labor as they're totally in collusion or as Carroll Quigley put in it
``Tragedy and Hope'', Corporations, Government, and Unions conspire to
profit at the expense of unorganized consumers.

One of the best books I've read recently explains this very well, Timothy
P. Carney's ``The Big Ripoff: How Big Businss and Big Government Steal Your
Money.

Bill
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