Comment by tobias3
If someone from the Mafia comes to you and asks for a 10% share of your restaurant you better say yes.
If someone from the Mafia comes to you and asks for a 10% share of your restaurant you better say yes.
Yes, but in this case the restaurant was already empty of customers on most evenings.
Breaking into an empty locked building is still breaking and entering.
My point was that Intel is already in need of rescue investment all on its own.
I'm just pointing out a limitation of the Mafia analogy.
Socializing a corporate venture with peace time debt seems counter to the ideals of free market capitalism. Even the takeover of "government motors" (GM) during the Great Recession left many concerned about government overreach. Boeing killed people with a bad product, and they only faced a fine without direct equity takeover.
When you're really familiar with extortion, everything looks like an opportunity for extortion.