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rmc on Oct 3, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: An open letter to Stripe: please come to Europe

Now they are all owned by the state. So you have government beurocracy to deal with now. Smart Economy, schmart economy.

_delirium on Oct 3, 2011 [–]

Only because the private owners were so bad at running a business that they bankrupted them, though. It will be quite a trick to see if the state can run them even more badly. Quite possible, but the bar was set high.

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