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"There's a virus."
"What should we do?"
"Close."
"How will we make money?"
"We'll give it to you."
"Where you going to get it?"
"We'll print it."
"That will cause inflation."
"Yes."
"How will we get food and stuff?"
"Essential workers are paid for this purpose"
"But with inflation, they will be paid much less."
"Yes but that happens much later."
"So, a huge wealth transfer from the working classes to the digital leisure classes who can check enough boxes in government forms, and the bill comes due long after our digital companies have driven our physical competitors out of business and no one will know what him them?"
"Precisely."
"Sounds like the biggest heist in history, very ambitious."
"Go big or go home - or both in this case"
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