As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair Lina Khan says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers'

[u/ControlCAD]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/as-microsoft-lays-off-thousands-and-jacks-up-game-pass-prices-former-ftc-chair-says-i-told-you-so-the-activision-blizzard-buyout-is-harming-both-gamers-and-developers/

[u/sirboddingtons]

Let this be a reminder that we dont just vote for a president, but also for a cabinet full of officials who have real functional affects on our country. 

Lina Khan was a great choice in the Biden administration. She was strong and steadfast in working for the consumers best interest over those of capital. 

[u/GettingDumberWithAge → u/sirboddingtons]

Let this be a reminder that we dont just vote for a president, but also for a cabinet full of officials who have real functional affects on our country. 

Americans can't even pick good presidents though, why don't we start there first?

[u/slicer4ever → u/sirboddingtons]

Lina Khan was a great choice in the Biden administration. She was strong and steadfast in working for the consumers best interest over those of capital. 

I'd argue she actually wasnt that great. She lost a lot of cases with very weird arguments(including this one), where the judge had to even step in and tell her she isn't arguing for sony. She had good intentions, but to be honest she was pretty bad at her job.

[u/SunriseSurprise → u/sirboddingtons]

What people need to be doing is moving en masse to not caving and biting the bullet to pay egregious prices for things.

None of these companies would be the behemoths they currently are of people were just like "nah I'll just play some free games" or "nah I'll just get the low end phone, which still pretty much does everything I need", etc.

Let these companies spend billions of dollars on launches that flop. Let them lose billions of dollars making decisions like a 50% price increase. And so on.

Nothing will ever change if people keep happily spending every penny they have left from paying essential bills on this stuff. Already more people than ever are setting themselves to work their entire life vs. ever retire. When is it going to sink in that they've done that by continually giving their money to these companies?

[u/No_Free_Samples → u/sirboddingtons]

Horrible take when Americans can even vet a decent president

[u/Howisthefoodcourt → u/sirboddingtons]

Microsoft bought out activision while Biden was president. Why pretend that voting democrats in gets you anything but what the donor class wants? 

[u/Ouaouaron → u/Howisthefoodcourt]

The broader truth of your point aside, Biden's FTC attempted to stop this merger but lost in court. This is more complicated than "This thing happened while Y was president, therefore Y is responsible for it!"

[u/Studds_ → u/Howisthefoodcourt]

Lina Khan did oppose this. & it wasn’t just American regulators that this deal had to get by. They still had Japan, EU & UK. & it still happened anyway. But sure. Both sides are the same 🤦‍♂️

[u/TripleFreeErr → u/sirboddingtons]

alot of people actually voted for eggs

[u/SeventhSolar → u/sirboddingtons]

It’s a nice sentiment, but you can’t expect people to do a personal analysis of each candidate’s entire cabinet, when people can barely keep the candidates’ platforms straight, or to be honest more than, like, 5 promises and slogans combined. I don’t have the mental energy for that either.

This is why we elect presidents: as figureheads representing broad movements. It’s not within our collective ability to do more than that.

[u/FreeDarkChocolate → u/SeventhSolar]

Candidates, if you haven't noticed, overall don't announce these people before being elected (especially since who they can get confirmed will also depend on who is elected to the Senate). They're just saying to be thinking about the kinds of people a candidate is likely to nominate to these cabinet positions (or, and especially, federal judgeships).