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Comment by matthewdgreen

2 years ago

It doesn't have to be one-dimensional, but some dimensions should concern us more than others. Businesses fail all the time for loads of reasons and we shouldn't necessarily try to prevent that. But the structural reasons behind this one are driven by market power and consolidation, and the result of the takeover will be an increase in those measures: these are the effects that generalize beyond "Red Lobster is a complex one-off."