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eru on Sept 14, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: “Secrets” about the consumer audio business you ma...

> Removing any other expense will be detrimental to the business, [...]

If you put it like that: just don't pay any interest on your debt.

The only thing that will happen is that the old owners will be wiped out in bankruptcy, and the older creditors will be the new owners.

Since you don't care about the owners, and only about the 'business', this is means 'nothing will happen'.

Bakary on Sept 14, 2022 [–]

This is a strawman in the sense that such a change of ownership can be highly disruptive to the business

eru on Sept 15, 2022 | [–]

A company that makes zero profit for a while would likely see a change of ownership, too.

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