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Most billionaires aren’t billionaires in cash. If the market crashes, so do they. Now they might be reduced to “only” a hundred million or so but that can be catastrophic when your personal finances depend on billions in stock backing up a series of long term rotating loans.

They wanted to use the market to exploit the people. But that makes them vulnerable in a way rich people didn’t used to be vulnerable.

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Yeah, but that “catastrophe” you and I won’t see it. We would have died already out of hunger or disease. You cannot survive only on hate itself.

Edit: typo

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Eh, when food gets scarce there’s a few ways things can go. Usually the people in charge try to stop those kind of extreme events by handing out food. It’s when there’s a dust bowl at the same time that things get nasty.

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Yeah, go ahead and think you can live on handouts from the rich and powerful, whose economy you’re trying to wreck.

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