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[-] flathead@quex.cc 15 points 1 year ago

War! What is it good for? It's good for business! -- Billy Bragg ("North Sea Bubble")

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/9780531

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Ferengi rules of acquisition:

  1. War is good for business
  2. Peace is good for business.
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

rules

Sounds pretty authoritarian. Not true capitalism :(

(/s)

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I suspect they ~~seem~~ see them more as laws of nature than obligations.

[-] NumaNuma@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Ferengi are the ultimate capitalist realists.

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

In Danish we have an idiom which says "der er intet der er så skidt, at det ikke er godt for noget" which roughly translates to "there's nothing that's so bad it isn't good for anything"

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