Is it just me or is every single merger a cause for disappointment and frustration with a government that once broke up monopolies, and every single failed merger a cause for celebration because it means slower 'enshittification' of everything?
I'm still pissed that Morgan Stanley was allowed to buy etrade for some fucking reason and immediately made my entire debit card experience worse, and made absolutely nothing better* for me, the customer.
For what it's worth, it's not just you. I sympathize completely. I watch for things like this affecting my life in the knowledge that every single time such a merger or acquisition happens, it's going to do me some kind of harm for no benefit.
Someone got paid for something, and that's the only purpose that was accomplished, and that someone wasn't (and never will be) me.
