I knew who had posted the parent comment without even looking. It's almost identical to many of their other comments, which I've also mistaken for satire in the past too.
These two companies are putting a ceiling on you and everyone else. You can choose to accept that, perhaps even benefit from their stock or employment, but the fact is that they are invasive species that are trophically malinvesting and snuffing out the most salient gradients of innovation and competition because we haven't policed them.
If you're pro-consumer, you want an end to this. If you're pro-business, pro-entrepreneur, pro-innovation capital seeing upside of labor and invention, then you also want an end to this.
These two companies would be worth more as separate entities than the sum of their parts. Their value is being squandered as gigantic conglomerate platform plays. They piss away so many resources and grow fat on the areas they've lodged themselves into and peerlessly destroyed any competition.
I've consistently echoed this sentiment for years. Now lots of people are saying the same thing.
Break them up, and competition will become relentlessly breakneck to fill out the new, healthier ecosystem. It would be a forest fire yielding to new growth.
