While many were against the 2008-09 bailouts, you could at least see the logic of why the cost of the wake left behind from a company like General Motors radically reorganizing or dissolving would be worse than the cost of bailing them out.
What happens if WeWork dissolves? Softbank and its investors lose a couple billion. They'll survive. WeWork owns some real estate and would leave behind office space that's already built out for short-term leasing.
They'd be leaving behind something that can be mostly done turn-key by the next owner, hopefully on a smaller scale, with less ambitious growth expectations. They wouldn't be leaving behind an entire supply chain that extends well beyond themselves.
Adam set that company up for failure and Son funded that stupid vision. Appropriately it was with the SoftBank Vision Fund.
Answer is they don’t “need” to.
It isn't logic grounded in some empirical truth. Bailouts - who gets them, as well as what would happen if not, are so subjective that there's no fair way to even go about it.
What's worse is to perpetuate a culture, model, industry that doesn't deserve to continue to operate. And by deserve, it's not my opinion, rather logic of the market dictating things.
As if that wasn't even, bailouts reward poor business practices - someone please prove otherwise!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-524...
They got £46 billion from the UK government.
But it's all psychology 101 really, once you are viewed as "too big to fail", everyone contributes to your gigantic scam like a nervous peasant and they'd rather do it forever than take the hit now and let it burn.