• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Number go down.

    Its meaningless to their power. especially when relative to each other, and the world, nothing has changed.

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
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    19 hours ago

    Not nearly enough. They’re still perfectly positioned to buy America when it collapses like the Soviet Union. That’s what this is about, and that’s why social safety nets are inconvenient for them.

  • Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    20 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.

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      20 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