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[–] flathead@quex.cc 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

Ferengi rules of acquisition:

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

rules

Sounds pretty authoritarian. Not true capitalism :(

(/s)

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] NumaNuma@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Ferengi are the ultimate capitalist realists.

[–] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years 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"