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red-iron-pine 65 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Private equity bought America's essential services

> I don’t think the economy was hamstrung in the least

post WW2 the world basically outside of the US blew up and the US pumped a ton of money into europe+asia to bolster it.

it's easy to be #1 when everything else burnt down

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