Baraka_Guru

The profit will be nice to see, if it indeed does happen.

As far as your comments are concerned, Dunedan, I have to disagree in that you're making the assumption that these companies that lucked out in the crisis are now keen on the idea of planning to fail with the hope they can get more easy funding from the government to prevent untold damage.

If you think this will be their new business model going forward, you're mistaken.

You're also assuming that most customers, shareholders, and stakeholders are stupid and/or have terrible memories and/or that these companies will ignore them.

You're also assuming the government is fine with how things played out and that they probably don't need to change how things work over the long term.

You're assuming nothing has changed.

I think you're wrong. I hope you're wrong.

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