Hold on to your butts.

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    20 hours ago

    “Next US president” is a hopeful prognostication. Trump seems intent on crashing the US economy into the side of a mountain

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      19 hours ago

      I heard a lot of conspiracy theories by now, that frankly portray mostly the same concepts in a pretty convincing manner, that say that this is exactly what they want to happen. And that’s pretty damn scary.

      Basically a new world order where everyone is poor and the billionaires control the world as the new monarchs. They take the world not by violence but by systematically destroying the world economy and having enormous amounts of money themselves.

      Pretty freaking scary if true, because all the steps are apparently working splendidly.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        It’s for sure plausible.

        Whenever a collapse happens, the rich get richer by buying up cheap assets, like houses and land.

        And since corporations are immortal, these assets will forever be owned by them generations into the future.

        It’s fiefdom, except that it’s much MUCH more stable over time given modern economies.

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          17 hours ago

          If and only if the corporations can maintain control of the government, which has the power to destroy them.

          They’ve had total control for almost a century, so that’s fairly stable, but it still would only take a few motivated populists to wrest control.