Wots this?!
People without enough money can't support a 75% retail driven economy?
That's just crazy commie talk!
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A business no longer needs to be quickly profitable, just through enough money at it until it one day it magically is. For reasons.
Think about that the next time you contemplate starting your own. This is what you are up against. Not some one else's better business plan or product, but a bottomless war chest that can make bollocks profitable.
You bring political shit into a completely unrelated thread and you are still not sure?
Well the core story of the movie was that, wait for it... politicians blew up the world.
And there was political conflict among the monkeys.
Or have you not seen the actual movie?
That's the famous Chinese port explosion at Taijin.
A VERY interesting bit of trivia about that port: it's very near one of China's supercomputing facilities, the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin. Close enough that it caused some minor structural damage to the building and they had to shut the computer down for some time.
The PTB are truly clueless about the Internet.
You can't stop the piracy, the dark web, porn, none of it. The ability to route around obstacles was built in from the beginning. Just like the entire purpose of the PC was freedom from the mainframe.
To badly paraphrase Sir Pratchett, " a mistake every corporation has been trying to fix ever since."