Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]

Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by stickfigure on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:19AM (#22644672)

I don't know how you do your financial planning, but when I invest my money, I expect to see a return. I expect most folks do. Everything else falls out of that.

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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by sho on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:24AM (#22644931)

> when I invest my money, I expect to see a return

If that return is at the cost of the stability and welfare of society at large then sorry, but no. No-one "deserves" a return and nothing happens in a vacuum. Larger society comes first, full stop. Seems this is a lesson we humans forget, and need to collectively and painfully relearn, every few decades.

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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by stickfigure on Saturday March 21, 2020 @01:12PM (#22647989)

Larger society comes first, full stop.

Ah, the rallying cry of 20th-century tyrants. You can justify just about anything with that statement.

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Re:Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [... by sangnoir on Saturday March 21, 2020 @08:52PM (#22651651)

If you prefer to think of it in economic terms, you may consider disrupting societal stability as counterparty risk, writ large.

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