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It’s time to merge. Fusion!!!

I guess since things are becoming tough, economically speaking, it makes a lot of sense to consolidate various businesses. When two companies come together in a good way, they are both stronger for it, and each can now better handle former weaknesses. Two heads are better than one.

In “Village Of The Damned,” a bunch of freaky blonde kids went around acting as one. They’d sit in class and absorb pages out of encyclopedias. I think how they did it was kind of like how a normal group of friends divides up pieces of a project.

“Alice, you take chapters 1 and 2. Fred, 3 and 4. Daria, 5 and 6, and Beavis, you take 7 and 8. We’ll all meet back here in 5 days to go over each other’s notes.”

But what I think those Damned children were doing was each reading one page, and immediately contributing it to their shared mind. They were rapidly assimilating information into the collective.

A company usually has a certain way of doing things, trade secrets. So a competitor would have to cobble together their own way of doing the same things. Sure, spies might be able to capture some of the methodology from Company #1, but I think, usually, Company #2 simply figures out the steps in the same logical manner that Company #1 originally used. There might be gaps. And Company #2 might fill inadvertently fill a gap that Company #1 is still struggling with.

Then the economy starts hurting, and both Companies need help. So they unite. BOOM! Their entity just doubled in size and intelligence.

But what really concerns me is what does this all mean to us? How does it impact us consumers when competitors unite? As long as the new Super Companies still have formidable opponents, then competition should remain, pushing value higher and prices lower. So hopefully the mergers will produce good news in most ways.