stackyFACTSAh, 'too big to fail', the ultimate capitalist cheat code.
Ah, 'too big to fail', the ultimate capitalist cheat code. When normal citizens make a terrible financial gamble, they lose their homes and ruin their credit forever. When massive investment banks make globally destructive gambling errors that trigger a historic recession, the government just forcibly extracts billions from the working class to reimburse the bankers. The executives literally kept their bonuses while the taxpayers kept the bill.
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