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The Corporate Word does represent a smallish % of GDP. But the impact of 1) Government Departments, 2) Banks, 3) Infrastructure Providers (eg Telco's) are felt by everyone in the economy.

Quick Thought Experiment: which would be more disruptive - every YC company shutting down for a day (as-in all their services going offline and completely unavailable) or $LARGEST_BANK or $LARGEST_TELCO in your country shutting down for the same 24 hours?




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