• sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub
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      13 hours ago

      Frankly, imagining our corporate overlords to be deluded in that way is giving them too much credit.

      The business model of the billionaire caste for decades has been to buy a company, loot it of everything valuable, leave what’s left to collapse and go bankrupt, use the “losses” to write off their own taxes, use the profits to buy more companies, and repeat.

      The billionaire caste doesn’t give a shit if companies they own go out of business and leave all their employees jobless. They plan on doing that anyway. AI just speeds it up.

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        Valid. I keep telling people that about Trump’s casino bankruptcies. It wasn’t bad business, it was deliberate. Loot the casino of every bit of profit, launder as much illegal cash as possible, stiff your creditors, file for bankruptcy, discharge all the debts, and rinse and repeat.

        It wasn’t bad business, it was a successful business model.

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      14 hours ago

      They don’t actually believe a single word they say. They’re just too scared to stand up to their shareholders.

      Well, actually, they do believe it. They’re just delusional. Because they’re too scared to stand up to their shareholders.

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      24 hours ago

      That might happen to all those other economies, but it won’t happen to ours. We’re better