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submitted 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by Buage_@piefed.social to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
 
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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Good luck with that 1st part.

[–] strop@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

We found the jealous one 🙄

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 46 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

Spend lots
Go into debt
Buy successful company
Load it with your debt
File (it) for bankruptcy
Make out like a bandit

Rinse, repeat

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

TL;DR: private equity

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You can actually skip step 1 if you want. That's what they did with toys'r'us. Those actions have long since convinced me anything financial is just a game played by the very rich.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 0 points 21 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] architectonas@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

Winning is easier by not sticking to them

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 63 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

It's this what America is trying to do?

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Buy up everything and then default on our loans? Yup. If they aren't trying, their incompetence is actually pretty impressive.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

We are trying to outsource our debt to china.

Its all games. I don't thing people that care are ready for how fucked up humanity is going to get. But worse than that, I don't think many care.

"They" have humanity by the balls.

And damn... Like I said... I don't think people understand... All these people we called terrorists might have been trying to save us.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

"might" is doing a lot of work there. A huge amount of "terrorists" are doing exactly that

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

Man, no trying, it's past and present tense now, doing and successfully did.

[–] lath@piefed.social 23 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Loan was not approved. What now?

[–] starchylemming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

take out a smaller loan to bribe the person who appeoves the loans

[–] notabot@piefed.social 36 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Set up a shell company. Set up a trust somewhere with no capital gain tax. Shift ownership of the shell to the trust. As the shell, come to an agreement in principal with the bank to buy it. Use this as colateral to raise a loan from the bank for the purchase amount. Transfer the debt to the bank as part of the merger with the shell company. The bank now basically owes itself to itself. Sell the combined company from the trust, thus avoiding capital gain tax.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

come to an agreement in principal [sic] with the bank to buy it

I assume this would go as well as Gamestop trying to buy Ebay.

[–] pez@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

That was no typo. Gonna use that principal like a tauntaun.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 hours ago

Brute force loan application: Keep trying random identities until one goes through.

[–] ashenone@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

Set the bank on fire and try the next one

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

pulls out minigun from payday 2

loan approved

😎

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

But the bank is worth $10 billion less.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (5 children)

It's not actually ridiculous in principle.

Let's say I start out owning a bank with ten billion in assets, and the bank's value comes entirely from its assets so it's worth ten billion.

The bank loans its ten billion to you, and you pay me those ten billion for the bank. Now I have ten billion in cash instead of a bank that was worth ten billion, and you have a bank worth ten billion to which you owe ten billion. No one's net worth has changed.

You default on your loan to your own bank. Now the bank is worthless (its worth came entirely from the loan) and you have no debt, so your net worth still hasn't changed. Effectively nothing has happened.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The bank loans its ten billion to you

A bank that's subject to government regulation isn't going to do that unless "you" have billions in assets to justify that kind of sale.

and you pay me those ten billion for the bank

And surely you report that sale on your taxes and pay the relevant taxes, right?

No one's net worth has changed.

Except you, once you've paid your taxes.

You default on your loan to your own bank.

Ok, so "you" missed the payment. Now what? You think "you" can walk away cleanly? Declaring bankruptcy to wipe your debt is only something that's available if the government provides that kind of mechanism, and generally that's only available to people who have otherwise followed all the rules, which wouldn't include buying a ten billion dollar bank when they had no assets.

The only way this scenario works is if you ignore all the laws. But, if you're ignoring the laws, why not just make it simpler and simply steal the bank's assets?

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 minutes ago

Geesh, your point made me think that it wasn’t an actual career path

[–] mech@feddit.org 16 points 10 hours ago

But now you can lobby the government to bail out your bank using tax money.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Effectively nothing has happened.

A lot of people lost a lot of their money and got their lives destroyed. Also, the previous owners liquidated their shares.

But yeah, you haven't got any richer.

[–] gegil@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Is capitalism real?!?!n1?

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

nothing has happened

Right, which is why it’s not some hero-swaggers-triumphantly maneuver. That’s the ridiculous part.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 6 points 10 hours ago

step 1: buy a money factory

step 2: profit

Noncredible economics

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago
[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)
  1. aquire money trough established capitalist social network

  2. Buy a successful small businesses with employees included.

  3. Run it trough the ground to extract all profit and value of to recover the money used to buy it

  4. You barely made money on this but you are “famous company” and they where just an obstacle for your competing products who are making more now.

  5. Repeat

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Step 5: Profit

[–] OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 hours ago

Ahem, you skipped a few steps but ya your close to it. https://youtu.be/x9P-pYGu_ws

[–] superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I feel like the closest real thing is a leveraged buyout