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1. action+N[view] [source] 2025-05-26 22:00:28
>>gwintr+(OP)
”The company ran on quasi-religious faith that the right leader could bend markets and reality itself.”

Hm, doesn’t ring a Bell.

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2. AStone+fe[view] [source] 2025-05-27 00:37:09
>>action+N
Did someone say "religious"?

https://computer.rip/2020-06-14-manifest-telephone.html

I said that religion does not thrive under capitalism, and of course this was the fate met by the Bell system. The breakup of the Bell system in 1982 occurred primarily in response to their very high rates, which were (accurately) seen as symptomatic of the monopoly they enjoyed.

CNBC Reporting Live from Jack Welch's funeral, March 5, 2020: https://youtu.be/6opKFgvRzjE?si=ynbAEYEZBCzfuTqE

Nobody is wearing masks, but there is a lot of name-dropping by the field reporter, Robert Frank, and a full obituary in the dooblydoo; don't miss them

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