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Probably not the best comparison. Reality is more like:

- Kill your competition, literally.

- Assassinate politicians that won't work with you.

- Murder anyone in the press that speaks ill of you.

- Pay off regulators that might interfere with your business.

- Slowly kill your client base as you ruin their life.



All of these seem like they're just more brutal parallels to existing business practices.

> Kill your competition, literally.

Buy them out or price them out of business.

> Assassinate politicians that won't work with you.

Buy them, or their competition. Call it "lobbying".

> Murder anyone in the press that speaks ill of you.

Discredit them instead with carefully planned leaks and press releases.

> Slowly kill your client base as you ruin their life.

Seems to work for the Tobacco and Alcohol industries.


Haha, right. That is how the article should have read.




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