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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What's the bribe price for "serious" concern?

Also, the journalist writing the article may wish to wear some armor on their neck.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably like $10k each, or zero if you can get them to go to your pedo island.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It's hard times and austerity so that's the default state now.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

Nothing will come of this unless it also concerns Republicans, but it doesn't, because the President's son-in-law helped make this deal happen and personally benefited from it.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

The concern: "Why aren't we in on it?"

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As if it'd be better run by private interests in the US 😂

The letter was sent on January 22 and suggests the debt-financed $55 billion acquisition, which will purportedly result in PIF holding a 93.4 percent stake in the Battlefield and Apex Legends publisher, will incentive layoffs, offshoring, studio closures, and other cost-cutting measures.

"incentive"

Also, isn't this what yanks have been doing for decades? Don't seppo businesses regularly fire a bunch of employees before the end of the financial year to have "record-breaking fourth quarter" and then hire back a bunch of people? Painting the Saudis as worse capitalists than the USAians is just hilarious

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their concern isn't that people are getting laid off but that they'll be laid off here and replaced with people abroad; and the executives benefiting from the cost-cutting are no longer Americans in this case.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's really only the latter: if rich yanks benefit = good, if non-yanks benefit = bad. They don't give two shits about USAians non in the C-suite being laid off. They haven't since the beginning and won't start now.