Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan

Post by groundzeros2015 » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 12:33 AM UTC

arjie wrote: post #90

The article makes the case that iRobot mismanaged their business at the behest of investors. Suppose one grants that this mismanagement occurred[0]. Then years into the mismanagement, Amazon offers to buy them. At this point, whatever path the company has been doomed to by mismanagement has already been taken. In 2022, one cannot go back to the 2010s and repair whatever bad business decisions have been made. So the F…

Post by jibal » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 12:43 AM UTC

azemetre wrote: post #134

DannyBee wrote: post #132

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Matt Stoller is often just trivially wrong. Like his arguments, and often "facts", rarely survive any sort of even mild scrutiny. At one point i wrote a detailed point-by-point rebuttal of where either his facts or his arguments were just wrong, for like 10 of his articles, but i eventually gave up. He doesn't even really try. I just decided i'm not the target audience. The target audience is either people who alread…

Saying their arguments are bad but the dog ate your response isn't exactly convincing either.

Post by pgwhalen » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 12:48 AM UTC

viscanti wrote: post #45

Grosvenor wrote: post #37

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That is probably true. But Roomba sucked in the early 2000's too. They never got better.

I believe the author's thesis is that if they had invested in innovation over a couple decades, the product probably would have sucked less.

Post by jibal » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 12:51 AM UTC

BurningFrog wrote: post #124

themafia wrote: post #110

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> closing off their escape route and de-facto enforcing the sell-off to the Chinese. There was only one escape route? And it happened to be the one they selected themselves? That seems dubious. > organizations that have expressly indicated that they want to break up the big companies We literally have laws which _require_ them to do this. This isn't ideological targeting it's the consequence of the "due care clause"…

There are no laws requiring break up of big companies!! There are laws around breaking up monopolies, which is a completely different concept.

Post by nickff » Sat, Dec 20, 2025, 1:06 AM UTC

asdfasvea wrote: post #154

DannyBee wrote: post #135

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Feel free to look at my comment history on matt's previous articles, like i've said, i've done point by point before if that's what you want. I'm just not spending the time to do it anymore because after doing it a lot, matt doesn't ever get better. It's always just the same garbage. Past a certain point, it's just not worth engaging with garbage anymore, and it's not reasonable to say "well you didn't engage with hi…

>>>Feel free to look at my comment history on matt's previous articles Feel free to post one simple link for us. You can't do that but you can follow the above sentence with 1000 more words?