Yeah, good luck hiring employees to treat as "property". I'm sure you'll get some real winners.

What about acquiring them?

exactly. they're not laying off Google employees (or at least not many). they're laying off people they bought the rights to.

Those rights were never theirs to buy. This country banned slavery long ago.

Really? Maybe someone should take a closer look at EA.

I don't see what Google did as being illegal. Certainly reprehensible, but making someone unemployable is not the same as employing them with zero salary.