• @[email protected]
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    392 years ago

    You may be dying in agony of radiation poisoning - but as long as your portfolio holds its value, it’s all worthwhile!

    (Didn’t read the article. Paywall.)

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Yet in a sense, this has little financial relevance, since in a nuclear conflagration your portfolio’s performance would be unlikely to rank highly among your priorities

      Last paragraph

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    The Investors?

    Since when did they become a class unto themselves? Fucking investors got us here in the first place trying to keep the money flowing into the MIC supplying wars around the globe with the latest toys.

    Thought this was a joke…thanks to the global logistical flow of goods, food, and materials a real WW3 will mean starvation, lack of medications, and collapse of all sorts of systems as materials, technology, and even clothing stop showing up in warehouses and stores.

  • Obinice
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    A third world war would mean the complete collapse of all global financial institutions within days, if not minutes.

    The investors that survived would find themselves in a society that no longer had access to digital money, could only trade what you could physically hand over, and could only “own” what you can stop other survivors from taking from you.

  • @[email protected]
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    652 years ago

    Thousands of children and innocent civilians are killed by a fascist, genocidal government, and a jihadi group.

    Won’t someone think of the shareholders

      • @[email protected]
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        102 years ago

        They’re terrible, but tend not to align particularly well with my personal definition of choice - Umberto Eco’s 14 signs of ur fascism.

          • @[email protected]
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            62 years ago

            Yeah - there’s certainly a spectrum, but I maintain the statement “Islamist extremist are fashist too” is an incorrect whatabboutism, particularly when directly comparing with the Israeli government.

  • ivanafterall
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    172 years ago

    Global conflicts have a habit of sneaking up on money-managers

    Wow, not even a hint of satire.

  • blargerer
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    232 years ago

    I thought this had to be one the of the parody news sites for sure. WTF.

    • Franzia
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      12 years ago

      Right! I saw this in a political web comic this morning. WTF.

  • @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    You know. I get that this is a boring dystopia. But it makes sense for an economic magazine (one that has been around since the first two world wars) to talk about the economic aspects of a looming world war.

    It even acknowledges in the article (more than once) that financial concerns are far down the priority list in such a case. But that as a financial publication, this is their purview so they’re focusing there.

    There’s a bit in the article in the direction of “war introduces such radical levels of uncertainty that even past occurrences provide few lessons to learn from”. (Can’t get a direct quote… returned to article to be stopped by paywall) It goes on to say that this uncertainty is heightened because any future world war will involve nuclear powers.

    I hope that knowledge of the level of uncertainty is enough to deter the spread of violence. But that hope may be as futile as hoping people would actually read the article

  • mrbubblesort
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    212 years ago

    Death, it means death. That’s it, there’s nothing else. As the quote goes, “I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    These headlines could be lifted straight from a newscast in Robocop and I wouldn’t know the difference. What a world