"You definitely won't back down?" Qiao Geliman asked, sounding as if he had already settled on Lin Qi's decision.
Lin Qi nodded along. "That's right. It's impossible."
Sometimes people might briefly wonder why, when two enormous forces faced off over certain issues, neither side would take a step back even though the matter could clearly be resolved peacefully if one of them yielded. This inevitably brought up the cruelty of capital, because the fastest way for capital to grow had never been through honest work and making money. It was always through swallowing others whole!
Why did people in a capitalist society believe that "miracles" existed? Because financial miracles were constantly unfolding! Some small companies used financial methods to swallow companies several, even a dozen or dozens of times larger than themselves. Wasn't that a miracle? It was exactly a miracle! The larger a company, group, or economy became, the more impossible it was for it to yield at any time! The leading lions in a pride had to let everyone see their strength at all times. Only then would no young lions challenge their position.
In the Federation's news, many people might have heard of ordinary citizens expressing dissatisfaction with politicians, or even with the president.
But how many people could see ordinary people's dissatisfaction with major conglomerates? You didn't even need to express it—the conglomerate's legal department could make you understand what a foolish decision you had made! Even if they were wrong and had no case, they would keep filing lawsuits until they drove those people into bankruptcy and forced them to shut up! And it wasn't only conglomerates bullying ordinary people. Conglomerates weren't peaceful with one another, either.
Capital possessed terrifying aggressiveness. If you yielded today, those people would launch even more brutal attacks in more