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Ubisoft and Tencent considering buyout, taking the company private - report (www.eurogamer.net)
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[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It always amuses me when a certain type of person hears "private company" and thinks that means "better than public"

Like the concentration of wealth makes it more moral or intelligent.

[โ€“] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Well "Going private" doesn't mean anything. It can mean PE. It can mean "traditional" personal/family ownership (e.g. Musk with Twitter). It can also mean moving to a co-op model (theoretically I don't think anything stops a bankrupt publicly-traded company being bought by its workers). "Private" doesn't sit anywhere on the political spectrum; even Marxists can generally agree that co-operatives are in principle better than publicly-traded companies.

Unfortunately PE firms are usually the ones who win the bid when a company "goes private" because the PE business model is driven by speculation and leveraged buyouts, and (at least in the US) supported by advantageous tax rates. Even from a purely capitalist perspective it's an objective failure that harms the macro-economy. It's not even capitalism anymore; it's oligarchic.