• Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    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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      15 days ago

      It hasn’t reduced their ability to extract wealth from the existing economy, but it’s reduced their potential rate of future expansion.