> "I think uncle Larry's plan is precisely that"

Honestly, when I hear about bad things happening to companies, those bad things often involving financial losses.....I begin to think that it's being done on purpose.  As perverse as it sounds, because "Why would companies tanking be beneficial!?", but somehow, some way, there is someone, or some group, benefiting from this.  Much of this is economics, though, and economics are beyond my comprehension. 

 Well think of it like this. If you spend a million dollars destroying a company that competes with a company you have another million dollars in, you lose a million dollars sure, but you stand to gain even more when all those customers flood into the other company, which can jack up its prices and make even more profit. and that's before you even get into the stock market stuff. It's evil shit really 

 Where did it all go wrong lol.

When the boomers wanted to grill during the fall of the USSR?