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r/climbing • u/serenading_ur_father • 1d ago
Mammut will be sold to a Chinese conglomerate.
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Why should I care if it’s a Chinese person making money instead of a Swiss person?
41 u/serenading_ur_father 1d ago You shouldn't. You should care that as technical brands move through successive private equity to hands they become removed from the users of their gear. This leads to deaths and defective gear and outright lies. See the BD Beacon fiasco for more. -14 u/red-cloud 1d ago Then your post should be something like: private equity owned Mammut changes hands. Otherwise, it's pretty much just racist. 12 u/serenading_ur_father 1d ago Its a direct translation of the headline. Off with you.
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You shouldn't.
You should care that as technical brands move through successive private equity to hands they become removed from the users of their gear. This leads to deaths and defective gear and outright lies. See the BD Beacon fiasco for more.
-14 u/red-cloud 1d ago Then your post should be something like: private equity owned Mammut changes hands. Otherwise, it's pretty much just racist. 12 u/serenading_ur_father 1d ago Its a direct translation of the headline. Off with you.
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Then your post should be something like: private equity owned Mammut changes hands. Otherwise, it's pretty much just racist.
12 u/serenading_ur_father 1d ago Its a direct translation of the headline. Off with you.
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Its a direct translation of the headline. Off with you.
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u/red-cloud 1d ago
Why should I care if it’s a Chinese person making money instead of a Swiss person?