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>So companies don't actually sell goods and services, they just get truckloads of free money from the state?
This is how all zombified economies work, maintained on quantitative easing. Ford, General Electro, most banks in the USA, are all examples. In Japan, you'd call these companies zaibatsu. They are too big to fail companies that can run an infinite debt scheme because the government always has to make sure that the market has enough leverage to roll their growing debt anually. This becomes increasingly hard every year, which has led to most of these companies losing their score (that used to be all AAA before 2008) to become higher risk investment.
>how can we use this to our advantage?
If you are a high profile executive in these companies, you can go on and contract as much debt as possible because the government will ensure banks will always be leveraged enough to provide you credit to refinance this debt. For the average citizen, it just means the lion's share of the market no longer operates under capitalism. You can use this piece of information to radicalize people who want to make it within the system, showing them that only insiders will get ahead.
This world is just filthy when you start studying the economy. The amount of rigging is insane. Capitalism died in 1913 and got buried in 1973.
