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posted ago by cathole953 ago by cathole953 +40 / -0

I know everyone want's nothing more than all of these woke corporations to go bankrupt, but this is a conversation that we all need to have. What will actually happen to them?

Despite all of our antagonistic feelings towards them, a lot of these companies ARE vital to US economic and technological supremacy. For example, I know EVERYONE hates Walmart, but have you ever considered what would happen to all of the restaurants, salons, specialty shops, etc. that conglomerate around Walmart in a shopping center if Walmart leaves? That's a MASSIVE loss of foot traffic, and all of those small businesses would suffer as a result.

Another, probably even more important example, would be the Tech giants. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft specifically. I know we all hate them, but seriously, if we let the big three tech companies fall, America will be DECADES behind the rest of the world. Amazon and Microsoft make up 52% of the cloud data computing industry by themselves. Throw in Google and you're up to 61%. Add in IBM and American companies make up 66% or literally two thirds of the cloud computing industry. This is the industry that basically makes the modern internet possible and run the way it does. It's not entirely inaccurate to say it's the modern day version of the Oil/Steel boom of the early 1900s. It literally makes the world run at this point.

And that's JUST cloud computing. That's not considering software and hardware development, Apple and their massive technological advancements in semiconductors and micro chips, etc. etc.

Then take AT&T or the other wireless carriers. Cellphones are vital to daily life at this point, so we can't just let them all collapse or we lose our communications network.

As much as we hate these companies in their current form, we can't just let them collapse due to wokeness. And yes, I understand Trump is doing the whole DWAC thing, but that would take years to get to the level of the Titans, and even then it doesn't account for hardware and software advancement. Just cloud computing and telecommunications/multi media.

I'm just saying, this is a problem pretty much no one brings up on here. Everyone always talks about how glad they are to here these corporations suffering under their wokeness (I'm guilty of this too), but there are real world ramifications to these companies collapsing. This is a problem that we need to discuss and find a solution for.