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Only_One_Box_Left 22 points ago +22 / -0

How the fuck did they lose their company??

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TAIWANNUMBERONE 38 points ago +38 / -0

Sabotage and infiltration. There was a string of box office blunders during the 70s and 80s, Black Cauldron being the big one, as well as Disneyworld development getting hamstringed. Coincidentally, all of that 180'd the moment the company switched hands and hasn't seem to have slowed down a tick since. Weird.

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DZP1 21 points ago +21 / -0

About hidden power: let me tell you. Years ago I owned a lot of a mining company stock. Then Goldman-Sachs decided they wanted the company. They pulled strings and got all development guarantor banks to withdraw their guaranteed loans for construction. The stock plummeted. GS mounted a takeover bid using a shell company completely staffed with GS ex employees. I lost a lot of money.

Disneyworld development required a lot of financing. The not-Christian bankers manipulated things and gained a lot of control.

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Only_One_Box_Left 9 points ago +9 / -0

"Gradually, I began to hate them."