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While it's not directly related to the Diamond bankruptcy, the New York Times just published a review of a book about private equity...

Sure, people are being hyperbolic. What they mean is "this sucks and is unfair". Which you know, I'm sure.

All of which speaks to how predatory some major hobby market businesses, especially in the US, have become, and how careful you have to...

The facts and your posts all say otherwise.

As we are not in a courtroom and no one is formally or even casually accusing Diamond of criminal malice, this is nonsense and just more...

An action can be malicious without meeting the court definition, just as it can be unethical without being a crime. Again, they have...

There are book remainder houses that pay pennies on the dollar for stock being blown out, typically because a publisher closes or the...

Again, this is excusing predatory behavior. There are non-predatory businesses, of course, and companies can act ethically--here...

No, but you are waving off predatory business behaviors as quotidian and excusing businesses passing off damage on to their partners as...

No, I see predatory business behavior resulting in companies that try to operate professionally getting screwed. Again, there was plenty...

When hobby games distributors Wizards Attic and then Osseum went under in short succession in the early 2000s, burning their clients and...

We have fifty years of outdoors, wide-open experiments to show that very few game companies ever grow very large. There are a wide...

It is. I have a somewhat related conversation going on in discord because we noticed that several folks are using the same image of...

If Coca-Cola were the size of rpg companies and suffered a hit like this, I might well donate to help. If Jones Soda Company did, ditto.

Have her read the source comic, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. It will make much more sense.