CWs: Cory Doctorow, newsletter, mentions of his upcoming book that he’s selling.

  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    I could understand the arguments about banks being too big to fail, because normal people and businesses have their money tied up in them.

    But is Meta too big to fail? Are any of the tech giants too big to fail? Let them.

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      They are too big to fail because the politicians that are suckling at their teats say they are. If those companies go under, the bribes, er donations dry up. They won’t let that happen. Millions, if not billions, of dollars are being funneled into the policical machinery to make sure that when the bubble pops, the people responsible will not pay any real price for it. It’ll be the workers and the tax payers who will have to clean up the mess while the ones who created it will sail off into the Caribbean on their newest super yacht.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      When you look at how the stock market works and who invests in it, yes it is too big to fail. We have moved away from companies providing pensions to retirees.

      What we moved to us stuff like IRAs and 401K’s. Occasionally you’ll see an SEP. But what you have to understand about that is a lot of the general public’s retirement savings are accruing value by being invested in the stock market.

      I know that a lot of media portrays this as a thing that makes it seem pretty farfetched but the stock market and most of the commodities traded there are too big to fail because their profitability and stock price is what the US retirement system (if you can call it that) is based on.

      Even social security is invested in the stock market. A lot of people don’t think they’re investing anything in the stock market and therefore crashes, dips, and even the bankruptcy of publicly traded companies doesn’t effect them. They’re not usually right about that.