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by whazor 3 days ago
It would be like Samsung: Samsung does semiconductors, smartphones, displays, TVs, appliances, batteries, shipbuilding, construction, insurance, hotels, and even theme parks.
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Actually no. Asians have common decency to run separate businesses as separate companies. Samsung Electronics does a lot. But it really doesn't have direct hand in other business. Even if there is some ownership in them.
It would be like the old General Electric.
It is the Asian model of capitalism. David Oks did a great article about this focusing on Japanese firms in particular [1]

[1] https://davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese-companies-do-so-many

Yet another conglomerate