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Naomi Klein: “Corporations are built to be opportunistic. That’s their mission. If there’s an opportunity, they must take advantage of it, and it’s in the interests of their shareholders, and they shouldn’t be sentimental about it. So that’s what capitalism is supposed to do: take advantage of opportunities. What I’m talking about, and what I mean by disaster capitalism, is a political strategy.”