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Re:Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call by lotsofpulp on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:51AM (#22710004)
And my point is you can’t be prepared for months of no revenue. No consumer is going to pay the high prices needed for a business to insure itself for an extinction level event, because an alternative business won’t and will offer lower prices.

For example, a hotel owner can choose to squirrel away cash to protect the hotel and its employees for months of no income. A competing hotel will instead choose to renovate the hotel. Which hotel will customers choose to stay at?

Re:Bird lays off hundreds via Zoom call by jdavis703 on Sunday March 29, 2020 @02:19PM (#22721246)
The “prepper” hotel could instead take out a loan (using their savings as collateral) to renovate.