• Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    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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      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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    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.

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    Number go down.

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