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^ Its called horizontal integration. You buy out competition to make your business stronger. They also own converse for the same reason. Its how both the Standard Oil and US Steal monopolies were formed. But Nike is cool, right dudes? They got sweet colorways, who cares what their other intentions are?
quit trying to sound intelligent. ambiguous is in no way competition for nike, or any skate clothing company for that matter. nobody wears that shit
All I was doing was answering the other poster's question. That's how it works. That's what its called when large companies buy up smaller brands that make the same product as them. Horizontal integration. Its not like I am even accusing them of some conspiracy. Why do you think they bought it? They just had to have those amazing ambiguous designs? Will the ambiguous label add any value to nike clothing? Of course not. You buy out smaller brands to give your large brand a greater reach in the market and to eliminate competition, no more, no less. They don't have to be attempting to create a monopoly, but many monopolies that have formed. Arguing whether or not a big company should have such a powerful influence on skating is a different discussion. This is just explaining what it is doing.
again, quit trying to sound intelligent. making me acknowledge how stupid and uneducated I am. nobody wants to read a novel paragraph when it can be said the exact same in we need it to be simplified into a single sentence, short stories reading multiple sentences are for faggots. The literate.
Fixed. Also, don't worry about the next few paragraphs, they are probably a bit too advanced for you in the language used and concepts discussed anyway.
Also, 5th column, acquisition is a vague term. Companies acquire 2 different kinds of companies usually: 1) Companies that make supplies they need (McDonalds buys out a cattle ranch) which is vertical integration, and companies they compete with (Nike buys Converse), called horizontal integration. Acknowledging both exist is not a far left position, it is a statement of fact. Most people look at the world as it exists with a more left wing lens, and when they hear corporate power is being concentrated into less hands, they give it a negative connotation. A genuine right wing person would acknowledge what I was talking about is true, then explain the value of having large corporations doing that in an attempt to explain why what was going on was not bad but good. They would acknowledge that I was explaining why a company like NIke would buy a company like ambiguous. Though I will say I appreciate the humor in you deciding to dissect my post.
And whoever said steel and oil are important and skate clothes are not, you are right, but COMPLETELY missed my point. Just because a company doesn't make something vital doesn't mean they can't take over a market using those techniques. Nobody needs McDonald's burgers or starbucks coffee either. Actually, South Park has an episode about horizontal integration regarding a starbucks where they explain exactly what I did, but show why they think it isn't necessarily so bad.
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