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Lemesplain t1_j6l15ng wrote

To add on, occasionally there’s a public money angle that makes it even less appealing to the general public.

A company is failing, but deemed “too big to fail,” so Uncle Sam gives that company a bunch of cash to keep them running.

6 months later, the company is doing well again, has a ton of extra money, and starts doing buybacks. Meanwhile, all of the citizens whose taxes paid for that bailout get nothing.

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