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byKokuyo ( 549451 ) writes:
They operate on the same wavelength of evil as banks do, so I guess why not?
byErrol backfiring ( 1280012 ) writes:
The main difference between banks and other financial institutions is that when they go bankrupt, government will take the losses. After the worst of the last crisis, it was already painfully clear that a next crisis would be an impossible burden, so be careful what you seem to care less about. This is asking, no, begging for an ugly crisis with enormous consequences.
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bynightflameauto ( 6607976 ) writes:
The main difference between banks and other financial institutions is that when they go bankrupt, government will take the losses. After the worst of the last crisis, it was already painfully clear that a next crisis would be an impossible burden, so be careful what you seem to care less about. This is asking, no, begging for an ugly crisis with enormous consequences.
At this point, it's just background noise. Every single aspect of society over the last couple decades seems to be setting up a giant fuck-you to humans, with the added bonus that about 75% of it is also geared to offer a giant middle finger to the biosphere in general. There's only so many ways to destroy ourselves that individual people can register before it becomes chatter or noise, and noise is easy to ignore when it's ever present with zero possibility of actually getting rid of it.
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