News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Alibaba founder Jack Ma steps out from shadows with long internal post. Parent comment

Re:Alibaba founder Jack Ma steps out from shadows with long ... by winrid on Thursday April 11, 2024 @01:32AM (#39998700)
Jack Ma didn't just try to build wealth like your average mid sized software or HVAC company. He built a monopoly and the company was fined for it and eventually broken up [0]. He obviously didn't like this and left the country to do billionaire things.

To me there's nothing 1984 or dystopian about this. The guy was building a company that was hurting the people. If anything we need more of this in the US.

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/07/07/tech...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Alibaba founder Jack Ma steps out from shadows with long ... by logicchains on Thursday April 11, 2024 @01:58AM (#39998837)
It was only a harmful monopoly if you take the Chinese communist party's word at face value, which is a pretty naive thing to do.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Alibaba founder Jack Ma steps out from shadows with long ... by eunos on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:38AM (#39999818)
Good thing Lehman bros and Enron already gone by now, else they'd be lionized as "dynamic and forward thinking" compared to "sclerotic" party
[ Parent | on HN ]