Are Victor or Cane really a threat on The Young and the Restless

On The Young and the Restless, Victor and Cane, a.k.a. Aristotle Dumas, act as if they pose a significant threat to companies like Jabot and Chancellor, but are they really? I think not.

Threat or not on The Young and the Restless

Both Cane (Billy Flynn) and Victor (Eric Braeden) are billionaires, and that makes them among the richest in the world easily. Owning billions is a crazy amount of money to have; if you spent $1000 a day, it would take you 2740 years to spend one billion. But having this amount of money does not make you a threat to steal someone's company, as people in Genoa City might imagine. It actually doesn't. Okay, so that money can buy you the best lawyers, and afford you to run a lawsuit indefinitely. And, it can buy a smear campaign and fight allegations. However, you can't simply acquire a company: You can't buy controlling shares that aren't for sale.

Is Jabot in danger?

No. Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) and Victor Newman have been having this feud of theirs for decades now, and despite Victor despising ALL of the Abbotts, he can't really do anything except minor annoyances. People need to chill on all the scaremongering. He can hate Jack, he can even team up with Cane, and all their combined finances cannot buy something that is not for sale. They can buy the land that Jabot is on, sell it, and demolish the building in which Jabot resides. But Jabot is a company, not a physical entity, and it can operate anywhere.

The Young and the Restless have built these two up to be monsters capable of anything and something to fear, like sailors of old feared the Kraken or some unnamed leviathan. Are they both formidable and ruthless businessmen? For sure, and so is Jack Abbott; none of them lasted this long without being good at what they do, but neither Victor nor Cane has a magic wand.

Someone, please, put Victor in his place

Victor runs his family like a business, demanding nothing but the highest loyalty from them. Still, it’s loyalty to whatever Victor wants, no matter the questionable legality or loose moral boundaries. But people, there is no need to fear them. They are mortal like the rest of Genoa City and can no more take someone's private company than they can sprout wings and fly themselves from the French Riviera and out of the laughable mess that Aristiotle Dumas has become.

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Cane is about the only one with the clout to take a run at the heavyweight title, but will he? Will he rattle sabres with TGVN? Cane is easily his equal and far younger. Will Victor take a loss this season? For this writer, I don't want to see the man broken, just humbled. Yes, a nice slice of humble pie, a few dollops of karma, and wash it all down with a nice glass of about time.

You can watch The Young and the Restless weekdays on CBS or stream live or on-demand on Paramount Plus.

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