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I hope this is sarcasm, I hope people aren't actually as cynical as this.

I hope you’re not as optimistic as that.

GM lost the American taxpayers north of $10MMM. That was enough to purchase over 500,000 vehicles at the time. 500 fucking thousand vehicles. That’s just the amount of money that they lost us with their “good Bank bad Bank” style IP-related scam. Do you think this is not reason enough to be cynical during financial crises?

what is $10MMM? that doesn't exist

M is "thousand". MM is "thousand thousand", which is "million", and a fairly common shorthand. I haven't really seen it, but its pretty clear then that MMM is meant to be "thousand thousand thousand", i.e., billion.

You could have also written it as "$10B" and 100% of people would have understood what you're talking about without an explanation.

Why didn't you write 500M cars as well? Could it be that it's a stupid convention?

I guess you are blind to how your comment comes across:

> which gives you and them the opportunity to make billions in profits while everybody else is suffering.

Strikes me as shitty attitude, "here's how you can profit from everyone's dire situation".

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