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		stephengillie on Jan 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to cut megabanks down to size The people in charge are too afraid we'll go all "Lord of the Flies" on them without the banking system to motivate us into productivity.

mdda on Jan 20, 2013 [–]

Suppose JPM/Chase had failed. The day after, there would be no cash in the ATMs (unless the government stepped in). The USA would be in a Lord of the Flies situation very rapidly. And we wouldn't be interested in the bank bosses, we'd be interested in food.

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