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I know first hand. I founded a dot com prior to the crash. An ill-advised copyright buy-out left me with a significant majority of company stock, but most of it was non-voting. Once that happened, all hell broke lose in my life. Wall Street weasels and the venture capitalists on board went after me like...well, sharks. The value of the stock was only about 1.5 million, but you'd think it was a trillion. They eventually found ways to remove me from my own company, and I lost my house of 15 years in the process. I had raised $400,000 in six months as seed money, almost all of which managed to find its way back to the lawyers and Wall Streeters after they removed me. The dot com still exists, but they scrapped all the work I did and the new chairmen gave all the creative work to another one of his own companies, renegging on a promise that I'd at least get the contract for the creative work...but now I was peniless and couldn't even afford retainers for lawyers. Which was their plan. Now I live in a rental home, my credit ruined for a few more years. Fortunately, I was working again quickly (on my own) and my wife has a good job.
But, when I saw what men would do for 1.5 million dollars, it clarified how evil people can really be. So when people say "Why would Bush do that?" I remind them of what people did to me. Then tell them to multiply that by control of the world.
Power and money corrupt the soul-less.
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