The South will rise again!

-The underlying belief motivating all of this

  • rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    Usually, if you want enrich yourself or your friends, you’d want to create a climate favorable to economic growth and skim little off the top of that using the usual corruption methods. You don’t want to start a multitude of trade or literal wars that threaten the global economy.

    If it wasn’t for Trump being the cause of this, you’d almost think this collapse is intentional…

    • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone
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      4 days ago

      That’s how you do it until you start to bump against the limits of growth. When the growth is done, profits no longer matter as much as straight ownership of what remains, and it’s easier to take pieces if you smash it first.

      • justaman123@lemmy.world
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        Yeah make a fuck ton of money as fast as possible running as many scams as possible then crash the economy super hard to buy up all the distressed assets on the dirt cheap