13 Jan 2023 5:41 pm
FOS mentioned a brilliant example where Sears was sabotaged from within, which then enabled Amazon to rise to power (note that this was always about power, not "profit" which is secondary).
I love to use the example of modern corporate bailouts, which is just transferring wealth from bondholders (mostly wealthy parasites) to corporate raiders/insiders (also mostly wealthy parasites) as debt becomes worthless.
(By the way, notice how conservative and liberal NPC retards believe that "paying off your debt" is some kind of noble duty when these wealthy parasites use every trick in the book to write off billions in debt whenever they get the opportunity.)
1) During "good" times...when (((they))) decide to flood the market with cheap debt, asset prices increase. These owner-investors then use the opportunity expand their personal fortunes (expand their liabilities, take on debt, dilute shares, cut expenses to the barebones...)
They will also, of course, reward themselves with $100M+ bonuses because these CEOs are "such amazing geniuses" (if you actually believe that you might be a retard)
Imagine you were handed a huge fortune making machine...but because you are not interested in "doing the work" to maintain the fortune making machine, you sell off the machine's parts. Or you use the machine as leverage/collateral for stock buybacks. This allows for some very easy profits while destroying the machine's long-term viability.
2) Inevitably...since (((they))) have had centuries of practice = the economy will turn sour and all of a sudden, there are liabilities that cannot be paid off. Here is the part where you send an army of corporate stooges to Congress...because the reason your "money making machine" no longer works is due to unforeseen circumstances like The Deadliest Pandemic Ever™ FORCING governments to shut down the global economy.
It was FORCED...I say, forced! (Let's also not forget the hundreds of billions in profits shorting crude to -$20/barrel and then buying calls when the price was about to recover...because of course the market for global commodities like crude is "natural"...there is never any manipulation going on behind the scenes)
The (((mainstream media))) will then tell the retarded public that we "have" to bail out these companies, or else the "entire economy" will suffer and we'll have 20-30% unemployment rates, etc...see the "thinly veiled" threat here?
"Give me the damn money...preferably @ low or zero interest of course, or we shut down operations and you can all go to hell."
Of course nobody wants to lose their J - O - B (Just-Over-Broke) so they allow the wealthy parasites to steal from other wealthy parasites. And hope their J - O - B doesn't disappear as quickly as all those "carefully audited/accountable funds made available for distressed corporations."
The NPCs might even be HAPPY getting $1400 in stimmy checks...which covers the price of 1 month's studio rent in a medium COL city like Dallas. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yippeee!! XD
TL;DR
Modern economy = "Which group(s) of wealthy parasites are getting the shaft this time?"
I love to use the example of modern corporate bailouts, which is just transferring wealth from bondholders (mostly wealthy parasites) to corporate raiders/insiders (also mostly wealthy parasites) as debt becomes worthless.
(By the way, notice how conservative and liberal NPC retards believe that "paying off your debt" is some kind of noble duty when these wealthy parasites use every trick in the book to write off billions in debt whenever they get the opportunity.)
1) During "good" times...when (((they))) decide to flood the market with cheap debt, asset prices increase. These owner-investors then use the opportunity expand their personal fortunes (expand their liabilities, take on debt, dilute shares, cut expenses to the barebones...)
They will also, of course, reward themselves with $100M+ bonuses because these CEOs are "such amazing geniuses" (if you actually believe that you might be a retard)
Imagine you were handed a huge fortune making machine...but because you are not interested in "doing the work" to maintain the fortune making machine, you sell off the machine's parts. Or you use the machine as leverage/collateral for stock buybacks. This allows for some very easy profits while destroying the machine's long-term viability.
2) Inevitably...since (((they))) have had centuries of practice = the economy will turn sour and all of a sudden, there are liabilities that cannot be paid off. Here is the part where you send an army of corporate stooges to Congress...because the reason your "money making machine" no longer works is due to unforeseen circumstances like The Deadliest Pandemic Ever™ FORCING governments to shut down the global economy.
It was FORCED...I say, forced! (Let's also not forget the hundreds of billions in profits shorting crude to -$20/barrel and then buying calls when the price was about to recover...because of course the market for global commodities like crude is "natural"...there is never any manipulation going on behind the scenes)
The (((mainstream media))) will then tell the retarded public that we "have" to bail out these companies, or else the "entire economy" will suffer and we'll have 20-30% unemployment rates, etc...see the "thinly veiled" threat here?
"Give me the damn money...preferably @ low or zero interest of course, or we shut down operations and you can all go to hell."
Of course nobody wants to lose their J - O - B (Just-Over-Broke) so they allow the wealthy parasites to steal from other wealthy parasites. And hope their J - O - B doesn't disappear as quickly as all those "carefully audited/accountable funds made available for distressed corporations."
The NPCs might even be HAPPY getting $1400 in stimmy checks...which covers the price of 1 month's studio rent in a medium COL city like Dallas. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yippeee!! XD
TL;DR
Modern economy = "Which group(s) of wealthy parasites are getting the shaft this time?"