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Scrivener7

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5. If the economics get bad enough and their financial backers tell them to, they will.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 02:31 PM

Apr 2025

That's why I think, paradoxically, the faster and worse these economics get, the sooner that will happen, and the easier it will be for us to come back from it.

A long, slow decline will be much worse for us.

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