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lastlib

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9. You are exactly right on!

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #5)

Fri Apr 4, 2025, 08:56 AM

Apr 2025

Last edited Sun Apr 6, 2025, 06:32 PM - Edit history (1)

Those guys have the cash on the sidelines, and are just waiting for things to crash, so they can swoop in and buy it all at bargain-basement prices. Then they fix up to their specs so that they rake in the profits, and the rest of us become their serfs. Without education, without job security, without health security, without financial safety net, we will be at their mercy, workers for life. I call it the "superhighway to serfdom."

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