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But in Dell's case, it's clearly the ownership, not the accompanying financial reward, that has really mattered.
Because of nuclear weapons, the United States and the Soviet Union could not afford to do what great rival empires would previously have done: go to war over the places that really mattered to them, in this case Europe and China-Taiwan-Japan.
The implied question in most criticism of the Fear and Loathing movie is: Why on earth did we ever think this crap mattered?
These proxy fights mattered because real fights were too dangerous.
(Although if the Dow market fell to, say, 6,000 tomorrow, we'd suddenly have politics that mattered in this country.)