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hunter

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7. You forget the modern corperate business model...

Reply to Demeter (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:33 PM

Jul 2012

... first you profit by running a business into the ground, by diverting maintainence funds, by laying off employees, by hiring low pay unqualified people, etc., etc..., and then you profit again from emergency government subsidies to build the business back up.

If you own enough politicians and government regulators you can repeat this process indefinitely.

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