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by dyauspitr 7 days ago
It’s still very tenuous you can’t prevent companies that own 5% of other companies from buying services from the that company
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We can prevent anything we want. If there's a major AI crash analogous to the Depression, we'll probably institute a lot of new regulations.
If the parent comment is true, it seems the problematic aspect is the leverage created by the P/E ratio more than the percentage of ownership. What a weird situation.
Oh yeah, these are definitely circular financial games but you have to be wary about putting in insane regulations that will break growth.