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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 102 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

be richest person

crash the biggest economy in the world

buy the remains for cheap

not exactly a complicated plan.

maga voters want this to happen. they crave being worse off.

[–] admin@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The crabs in a bucket mentality.

[–] PenguinMage@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Crabs don't actually root for the outcome, they can't see the outcome. They just try to climb and end up pulling down anything above them. These people actively vote against their interest and then cheer the pain & suffering of others. I'd take crabs any day of the week.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

This is what happened in 2008. They’re just trying to repeat the process.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 70 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Billionaire Disaster Capitalism - billionaires create their own disasters and then profit immensely off of them

[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

exactly this. crashing the economy IS the plan. you just need to be short on the right stocks at the right time.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

By April, the employment report will probably be either heavily doctored or just downright not published.

Nazis don't care about the truth.

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Taking a page from the CCP

It’s sad that you have downvotes for this. It is a common practice in authoritarian states.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 47 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Crises are a feature of capitalism. Marx talked about this. Things become hell for the working class, and the capitalists reap the rewards.

[–] SyntaxError@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and people with power, people with connections, and people who are rich will always benefit from crises. Naomi Kleins The shock doctrine explains this very well in a modern context.

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That guy is forgetting that the jobs report is produced by a government agency, so what makes him think they're going to report accurate numbers?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or any numbers if they are all fired too.

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[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 weeks ago

“Jesse Rothstein is an economist, and currently professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, he was chief economist at the US Department of Labor. He is the founding director of the California Policy Lab, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Industrial Relations.[1][2][3][4]”

For those that don’t know the guy he’s got a solid pedigree

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the point. They want to crash the economy.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, he said so himself even before the election. We just have the fucking stupidest, god awful people in this country that apparently wanted it.

[–] murphy@startrek.website 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

he said so himself

I would love to be able to show some of my MAGA relatives that clip. Do you have a link?

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Thank you for the link.

In the article Elon Musk said that we (and by we he means us) have to reduce spending to live within our means. LOL. This from the guy who sells $100k cars.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 26 points 3 weeks ago (20 children)

And, look, I'm not a hedge analyst or an economist, but even I can see that the comedown from the tariffs is going to have a huge negative impact on the stock market.

So, genuine question here, if this recession comes along with the stock market dip, will that cause a spiral that leads to another great depression?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe? I do know that Elon is going after the agency that runs the FDIC. The FDIC insures the bank's money. I don't see how they don't see how shitty this is going to be for all of them too. It's insane.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Oligarchs have their money tied up in property, investments, and hidden from the taxman in foreign banks. Destroying the stock market would hurt them a bit, but destroying banks? The way they see it, only poor people have their money in a savings account.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I remember the first time I realized that. It was when watching the Futurama episode, "Insane in the Mainframe."

Judge Whitey: The charge is bank robbery. Now, my caddie's chauffeur informs me that a bank is a place where people put money that isn't properly invested. Therefore, robbing a bank is tantamount to that most heinous of crimes - theft of money.

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Ha! Joke’s on them! I have no money so FDIC doesn’t affect me! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

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[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But hey, look on the bright side: Musk and his rich bros will be able to buy up stuff for dirt cheap!

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago

Don’t worry. Elon and his friends will simply invest in shares as they bottom out in the crash.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 19 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah no shit? Like anyone honest with themselves KNEW that would be the result if Trump won the presidency.

They should have been saying this BEFORE the election, instead of gargling the wrinkled, atrophied, and filthy balls of Trump.

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Who is there to warn though?

You got your normal Americans who already know this.

And then there's the manipulated ~~Nazis~~ Magas that won't even listen to this warning.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is some of that bizarre, black-and-white thinking I've come to expect from Lemmy (and, of course, reddit). I can assure you that there are a lot of "normal Americans" who do not "already know this".

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like too many of the people here really do need to touch grass. Idk if it's the high number of people in tech work or something else but I see so many takes of what "normal" people that's so far off the mark it makes me question when was the last time they spoke to an actual person.

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[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Global reciprocal Tariffs, aren't going to lead to recession, they're going to lead to the worst Global economic depression since the 1930's. With Trump taking over control of the USPS (announced just today), and martial law soon on the horizon (maybe even a Russian invasion of California, you know, for a treat), this next couple months is gonna be one for the record books

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Deportations are also lost jobs. Not sure they will be counted though.

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[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Won’t these numbers be manipulated and likely outright lies anyway?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The incompetent scammer isn't capable of making economic sound decisions? Who could have imagined that?

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[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I fucking hope so. I cannot wait to watch this burn down around them.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump is going to cause the recession. Musk is there because of trump.

[–] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Musk paid to get Trump into office. Musk is there because of Musk.

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

About to?!?

Dude, I have bad news for you.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, don't worry, it's "a good thing" we're about to enter a recession!

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