That's a brilliant plan. Lets wipeout thousands of jobs and billions in investment equity because... you know "karma". And for what? Because they have to play hardball in a field drowning in entrenched money interests?
As for this particular case, I have to say it seems a little strange to me that Anthony Levandowski could just leave Google and start his own company, Otto, with Google's intellectual property. No one complained then. But when Uber buys Otto, now it's a problem. One has to wonder who is playing who exactly?