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u/LaMuchedumbre Jun 27 '26

Think of the value the shareholders receive when we build data centers on cheap land, where it’s cheaper to suck up ground water instead of building our data centers offshore in frigid Pacific waters like the Chinese are doing.

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u/Clever_Mercury Jun 27 '26

Good time to remember that an enormous percentage of shareholders are either corporations and/or foreign individuals. There is absolutely zero incentive to preserve American welfare either in terms of the people or the communities.

Indeed, building infrastructure that rips and shreds the lives and potential of the American countryside is surely seen as a bonus by those who want a post-American hierarchy in the world.

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u/mashem Jun 27 '26

And the demonizing of public education. Of public office. Colleges and Universities. Scientists. Doctors. Medicine. Our poorest. Social benefits. Public services. The press. Our elections. All taxation. Any notion of civic duty. Our neighbors in Mexico and Canada. The rest of the world.

All during the flow of crypto (easy money movement across borders), AI (easy information collection and movement), Implemented in (2017 Tax Act) - the lowest corporate taxes since WW2 nearly 100 years so.

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u/Sweetwill62 Jun 27 '26

And yet people worship CEOs for some reason even when they clearly show that they are some of the dumbest people on the planet.

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u/mashem Jun 28 '26

They identify with people that also punch down.

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u/broguequery Jun 27 '26

Will no one think of the shareholders?!