Comment by samdoesnothing
2 days ago
I think most capitalists aren't pro or anti acquisition, for the simple fact that they don't believe they have the right to tell two people (or two groups of people) that they aren't allowed to associate with each other.
But if you're more consequentialist, you might take it on a case-by-case basis.
Except two large corporations aren't people. They're something more and less. Corporations don't have morals. They have objectives.
In the abstract, I agree that we shouldn't tell two people whether or not they can associate with each other. But corporations? That's very different.
Corporations are nothing more than a legal fiction around a group of people. Do you think individuals lose certain rights when they form groups?