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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 69 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine having a successful, "thriving" business and having to shut it down because nobody wanted to take it over after you retired.

[–] Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, the facts aren't adding up here. Why wouldn't Aardman buy them up if they were the only supplier and successful?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just because you are a big buyer of product X, it does not necessarily mean you are the best-suited person to run a company producing it.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sp you're telling me that eating McDonald's every day doesn't make me qualified to he the CEO of McDonalds? I wish someone would have told me this earlier.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, you are what you eat.

Eat the rich.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

I was wondering.

If we were to kill Bezos and cut him into 8 billion pieces and feed it to the entire population of Earth.

Could we make everyone rich?

Or does it take a specific threshold of cannibalism to make someone into what they eat?

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like it was the one nugget you really could have used

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I appreciate you.

[–] Magrath@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Just because you own it doesn't mean you have to run it. Thats what CEOs are for. They often don't own the company they run.