• Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    19 hours ago

    They lost 0. Zero. No factories were burned down, no warehouses were exploded. Those stock market numbers you’re screaming about aren’t resources. More like a “sometimes applicable coefficient” to money.

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      19 hours ago

      It hasn’t reduced their ability to extract wealth from the existing economy, but it’s reduced their potential rate of future expansion.

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        15 hours ago

        Hardly. They are in it for the long haul. What they’ve lost in perceived value they’ve gained ten-fold from deregulation and the destruction of the IRS, FBI, and other government entities holding them accountable