Additionally, as mentioned before, with the 'consumption tax' plummeting by ten points under the economic recovery policy, the Ye Corporation's subsidiaries went crazy dumping off-world merchandise, severely suppressing the overall manufacturing sector of 0791 who found themselves gasping for air. Pretty much anything produced was unsellable, and orders plummeted leading to a wave of bankruptcies. Honestly, doing honest industry work just meant incurring heavy losses with nothing to show for it.
But how should I put this, although the local enterprises of Night City were severely oppressed by the Cosmic Humans, isn't today's size of Takamanohara also reliant on loot plundered from other Earths through numerous Multiverse wars?
The economic curve is just like this, with ups and downs. Since the ninth Neo Tokyo embarked on foreign wars, there's always a time to lose everything—now it's simply a turn of fortune, and it's this generation's turn to repay the historical debts.
