• @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    51 year ago

    Ah, I forgot that Blue Origin wasn’t connected to Amazon but Kuiper is. This is exactly why SpaceX owns Starlink. Bezo should have followed the same corporate structure and it would have been fine.

    Frankly, I don’t care terribly much, let the millionaires sue the billionaires. It’s all still rather silly. Especially, since you see another group of companies doing the same exact thing and you wonder why paperwork is the only reason they get away with it. Anyone looking at Kuiper or even Amazon and not also seeing Blue Origin is lying to themselves. Elon does this sort of cross-corporate bullshit too, SpaceX launched a Telsa into space just to cross-promote the brands. We should honestly crack down on how big corporations have got and how much they get away with cross-promoting for personal gain.

    • @HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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      41 year ago

      Elon has plenty of lawsuits against him.

      But unfortunately you are wrong. 1st its not millionairs. It is a pension fund. These have everyday working bods as their members trying to earn a regular return.

      So when the leader of a company make a choice that is not good corperate governance. Then the pension fund investing is required to act in its members interest.

      You also made an error when you compare share holding to casino. Casinos are by their very nature gambling stovk port folios are an investment. Based on the information provided by the company.

      So yes when a company behave in a way that goes against the investment claims the board made. They are prown to being sued.

      Because it is those claims that investors base their risk on. Rather then a casino where your risk is based on knowing full well the house always wins.

    • @zhunk@beehaw.orgOP
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      11 year ago

      Elon was also moving engineers over to Twitter when he bought it, which could have caused lawsuits from Tesla shareholders. Amazon and Tesla being public opens them up to more scrutiny about the billionaire BS.

    • @upstream@beehaw.org
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      11 year ago

      SpaceX launching Elon Musks privately owned Tesla Roadster is hardly cross company.

      There’s a side effect of good marketing for both companies and the “Elon Musk”-brand, but he’s doing a good job of tarnishing that brand on his own.

      Anti-trust seems like a good thing to bring back though.