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Ok-Grapefruit2910

Leverage leads to margerine. Looks like WW3 back on the books. Taco or Netanyahu need assassinated.

Bigbagholdr

Did WW3 start?

RiPFrozone

Yes anything happening to Taiwan would be catastrophic and an invasion would cause WW3, but I hope you know 40% of generic drugs to the US come from India and is home to the largest amount of FDA approved manufacturing plants outside of America. They are also a major global supplier for active pharmaceutical ingredients. As for the tech sector, a lot of companies that rely on their outsourced work would be hit. Not saying it would cause a major impact like Taiwan, but there is more nuance than what you might have imagined. There is still impact.

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW: +7% on Thursday, -2% on the week, +76% from my $9.80 average. Still 100% in

jahdyudnwl

The Koreans couldn’t do it. The Europoors tried to kill it. Americans saving the semis like it’s WW2

92_Charlie

Why bother? The energy market of the (post WW3) future is going to be dried animal dung.

rithsleeper

I meant for long term stability. Just like the bomb on Hiroshima put an end to WW2 vs dragging it out for who knows how long.

Successful_Car1670

It was historical 9 week run in the middle of WW3 smh

LostMallDoll

mfs still processing the fact that WW3 is DEFINITELY HAPPENING

KnickersTwisted

I think it's more that most Americans who had family in WW2 feel that we should protect the Jewish people, not realizing what Israel's policies were really about. I'm Gen X, and I had to learn that too.

VeterinarianIll4796

Another ceasefire... Israel and Lebanon... for what it's worth [https://x.com/WW3\_Monitor/status/2062298789554028942](https://x.com/WW3_Monitor/status/2062298789554028942)

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW stock went from panic mode to green in less than few hours. Still 100% WW

MeneerDeAdviseur

A 7% intraday drop that gets bought back is not the worst thing in the world. Still 100% WW

No_Location376

I'd like to think that would fail considering we didn't even do that during WW2, but who knows. I can say that shit is going to get real as soon as the reserves start drying up. All these delusional psychos are going to get ripped from their AI fantasy real quick

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW down 5.7% today, but still up roughly 50% from where it was trading just a few weeks ago. I'm still 100% in

aDonkeyWithACarrot

History lesson: in WW2 Germans were using amphetamines while buying calls and driving a tank through Paris

shryke12

Yes financial repression post WW2 style.

hallett21

Hear me out. Podium dimly lit. 🥭 comes out wearing a fire 3 piece suit. He just starts rapping love the way you lie. Axios is live streaming with subtitles saying we’ve won WW3, 4 and 5. Tom cruise flys a F14 over while Kenny loggins jams on a guitar. That’s the propaganda we need right now.

isukforfree

Oil shock is priced in. Same with tariffs and WW3

GemmyBoy999

Europe survived WW2, where entire cities was razed to the ground, most industries destroyed and entire countries people having to flee, but they still recovered in just a few decades.

ThinkingOfTheOldDays

I'm up 479,179% on inherited IBM shares from WW2 era.  Thanks pappy. ☝️

goesey

Next president will be born before WW2 somehow

Due-Chipmunk-1335

WW3 will officially start on June 7, 2026. or 6/7/2026

LowBread9264

They’ll get bombed until they signed the treaty, just like Germany and Japan at the end of WW2.

Sufficient_Habit5091

Facts. I went heavy into cash leading up to the Iran dip. Now I am holding giant piles of money, thumb up my arse and no idea how to get back in. It's soul crushing. Last hope is not so much WW3 but whether Warsh was lying about reforming Fed and shrinking balance sheet, inflation being a monetary phenomena etc. If he's corrupt and full of it, f'it I'm full porting and going leveraged bull. It's terrible but I'll deal with whatever happens later, might as well ride with you guys and when it all collapses it's every man for himself.

wowthisislong

we could start WW3, close the borders completely, and dump a billion barrels of oil into the ocean and markets would still find a way to be green at the end of the week

Comfortable-Gap-9775

holy did WW3 just get announced or somethin?

ReasonableBrother448

Oil consumption does not get reduced. It can flatline and i would argue this comes out simply from arbitrage, magical hand of mr. market. Markets balance the energy sources over long periods. When oil prices rise, electricity prices from solar panel sources rise. I am unaware of any mechanism which would make oil redundant. It would require humankind to reduce total energy consumption and in a constructive way too. That is a pipe dream. If we get say, WW3 it will reduce energy consumption on global scale, but what is left will be the simplified sources like coal and oil. All others will be wiped out from complexity sake.

loki2113

Alright, fair's fair that is \*one\* country. Curious, I looked it up and Mexico is also the \*only\* "western" country (you mentioned western countries, not me) that commonly uses the salute. Pulling from the same Wikipedia article as you did when you copy/pasted their short article on Mexico (not hating on copy/paste just stating that's where it comes from), Brazil, Chile, & Portugal use it strictly in a military setting for formal oaths or completing phase one of military training and Taiwan uses it strictly during the swearing oaths of office. Though they're all "non western" countries technically. As others have stated, the Nazis were a great evil of the world and many of their symbols were stolen from other places or cultures but all of them were tainted by the Nazis. Nobody argues for the use of swastikas in almost all contexts in the western world (Finnish military still using it on a few things but have largely removed it despite adopting a blue swastika in 1918). I just don't understand this weird insistence on using something a large group of people see as harmful and carrying bad memories. Maybe in a few hundred years when the pain has subsided the use of the salute or swastika will make a comeback or something but we're barely 80 years out from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Survivors have only recently started dying in the last decade or two but their families and those harmed by the actions of the Nazis are still around today. Why spitefully use symbols of hatred? Why not just make new symbols or gestures? Come up with a cool handshake instead of using something connected to the death of over a hundred million people (WW2 and the Holocaust)? I just don't understand the want to use something like that.

R101C

Time in > timing. Source: market returns since pre WW2.

NotMe357

"NEW: Congress advances plan to bring the U.S. and Israeli militaries "closer than ever" through joint weapons development & technology." I bet within 5 years there will be WW3.

TheIntrepid1

Ironically, Star Trek predicted WW3 started in 2026.

ZaraBloom418

Can we talk WW2 here? Japan needed to bomb the US, because they unnecessarily cut off their oil supply. The US got bit Japan is nothing to mess with, I mean what u gonna do?

Logical_Idiot_9433

The only bright side I can think of is the massive upgrade of the power distribution, generation and communications infrastructure it’s gonna kick off. Something similar to what interstate highways is to auto culture post WW2.

Small_Rip351

In the pre and post WW2 era, the U.S. government embarked on a massive infrastructure buildout. Highways, electrification, school buildings, parks. This infrastructure (and the spending) brought about a massive wave of prosperity. Now private corporations are building out a massive AI and energy infrastructure project of similar scale. The general public will either be helped or harmed (or both), but equity owners will largely reap the rewards. It won’t continue to go parabolic and the weaker tangential AI supply chain names will get washed out eventually, but this mega trend IS HAPPENING. The AI models driving all of the spending are iterating themselves nonstop into better models without sleep. The commitment to this race isn’t going away. The bottlenecks (chips, memory, copper, rare earths, photonics, energy) will surge until supply can meet demand. And the demand is and will continue to be there for years. Once Anthropic and Open AI go public there will be a massive re-rating of all this stuff, probably to the downside. Who knows. My point though (TLDR) is that while these parabolic charts are ridiculous and some names may be overvalued, the underlying thesis behind them is legitimate and will continue.

Life_Football_979

WW3 incoming. Calls on nukes.

HowWeLikeToRoll

🥭 failed to make a deal, pump! I'm starting to think that wallstreet wants WW3... 

Huge-Bee-9279

I mean, of course? No dominant power should entertain competition. The USA did that for decades post WW2 and all its done is allow the rise of a competing power.

lndnmdn

we're already pricing in life far beyond the peace deal. pricing in a post-WW3 scenario.

djheat

real Gs root for WW3 so they can make money on their defense contractor calls

Impressive-Name5129

Probably time for WW3. Russia drone hit Romania

music_is_gud

My grandpa destroyed so many German planes in WW2 He was easily the worst plane mechanic the Germans had.

djheat

The masculine urge to watch WW2 documentaries (Tom should've let Chet narrate this one)

Mathizzz

I think we won't have another big crash like '08 because government learned since that they can't bail any and all system failures with QE and printing money. I think something catastrophic like a pandemic or WW3 or something could do harm but otherwise it's up from here (but it comes with higher inflation).

SquidKid47

I can't believe we flatlined at 680 for 4 months and the only thing that could get us past that was a global energy crisis and WW3

No_Stand5622

WW3 will still be bullish as long as they ceasefire on the weekend.

JudgeCheezels

Been saying WW3 is basically drone warfare since 3 years ago.

djheat

I'm watching WW2 with Tom Hanks and all I can think is this would've been the perfect time for him to hand a job off to Chet

superhappykid

Is that like the iranian Godzilla? Cause I saw a documentary of Godzilla after the WW2 bombings and he smashed up a lot of stuff.

JudgeJudyExecutionor

China is the future dude. They’ve solved capitalism. We won the lottery and got fat and dumb and they engineered their way to the top. It’s game over. By lottery I mean Europe crippling itself in a bar fight and us driving them home…WW2 etc. We then got their girlfriends and exploited to globe via Cold War. Now here comes China and we hand over every piece of intellectual property for a small bribe. Now the only thing growing in our wonderful country is credit card debt, trailer parks, and meth labs.

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW at $15.15 now 😄 Still 100% in. This turnaround move is getting kind of insane. My move tomorrow? Same as before: holding WW and trying not to watch the chart every 5 minutes.

maomaocat

a *lighter* shade of american blue for the WW2 memorial

noneofthebest

Yes, Russia starts WW3 soon so expect no big opportunities in a century or more.

UnholyTrigon

Ber told me we’d have WW3 yesterday, what happened?

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW closing at $13.84 😄 Still 100% in and honestly didn’t expect the move to happen this fast

putsonyourbrain

consumer sentiment is at its lowest its been since WW2, he pretty much has to, all his options are worst than walking away

Repulsive_Roof6790

WW3 is bound to happen just to piss on my callls

Quen-Tin

First of all: thanks for taking our little exchange that serious. I appreciate that, despite having a different focus on some topics. Your point of view seems elaborated to me, but luckily there is enough space in this world for two different opinions at the same time. So I put mine just next to yours. Not more, not less. Maybe you misunderstood my intention in one point: I didn't want to say that women bear the heavier burden in war times, compared to male soldiers, being in service. I just reacted, the way I did, because I was talking about the burden of different generations before (including men and women). You seemed to react by telling, that it was never easy and illustrating that by men, fighting wars (starting from WW1). And I couldn't stop myself, from highlighting your more selective focus by saying, that I would still prefer not to underestimate the general burden women. Throughout history and in average, I wouldn't have prefered to be born as one. And yes: war hits hard. Men and women. Fighting personal (in the past almost only men, but not only) in average likely harder. But not every man living in war times was serving or fought at the front. Not every soldier fighting was forced to do so. Some made choices, for good or for bad, for duty or for heroism, for adventure seeking or for very personal motives. But when you speak about being nuked for example, let's not forget that the only targets of nukes so far, where civilian ones, hitting men, women and children equaly. Many women also had the chance to prove themselves beyond peace time gender roles during WW2. Many of them likely 'enjoyed' that perspective/temporary personal freedom. Others lost their fighting relatives and where left behind with the responsibility of keeping the kids alive. Would you have prefered to be Russian woman in encircled and horrible starving Leningrad in WW2? Or a German woman when the Red Army mass raped their way to Berlin? Or a Japanese woman seeing the flesh fall of her children after the nukes? Or a Korean woman of comfort being a sex slave for the Japanese army? But all of that was not my point. My point was that I still see men, in most ages, most countries and most situations, as different burdened than women and I personally prefer the male version of possibilities on average. And I guess, many women would agree. I also understand, that the US perspective on soldiers is a different one, than in some other places. Deriving from different historical experiences and different narratives. I also thanked soldiers for their service, but it is way less common here and some people wouldn't do it in general. The US military played a crucial role in the rise of the US to its modern status as a (yet) leading military and economical power. It kicked out the British, fought Natives, took a third of Mexican territory, fought the Phillipines and projected US dominance world wide in countless struggles. It lost it's battles and was not able to win all wars. So it also had to retreat, but it never was experiencing a crushing defeat like for example the axis powers did in WW2. Maybe the experience of the South in the Civil War comes closest to that, but that was, after the reunification, a regional experience and not a national one. Still for some a trauma with long shadows (KKK). And it would be possible to question, if also the US army was fighting for the wrong ideals in many wars. But again this was less a topic in the US, than in other nations who lost their hegemonial ambitions, because they were simply forced to do so. As nations and/or as individuals. My greatgrandfather fought in Verdun. One of the fiercest battle grounds of WW1. My grandfather fought in WW2 and the last two years of is life he was having nightmares every night, six decades after the war ended. So yes ... countless men experienced and commited harsh attrocities during war time. And not everybody coming home was celebrated as a victor. Many came back victorious, but still were traumatized or at least faced difficulties, to reintegrate in a peacetime society with different standards. Just to find words for the own emotions and people who cared, was a topic for veterans. High suicide rates are a part of the long shadow of wars. Am I thankful for the achievements of the US military in WW2 (next to the achievements of other allies that helped to free Western Europe)? Absolutely! Would I cheer for every other campaigns of the US military since 1776? No. Should I? And most countries have at least a mixed balance, regarding their military history, without claiming, that they were all the same. So I would be rather respect or maybe even admire single deeds of single soldiers and thank for the general willingness to protect others in case of need, despite risking life, health, psyche and moral integrity. But I wouldn't see men in general as more burdened because women fought less often at the front. The daily struggle of women goes deeper. It is present in all societies, at all times, even if it comes in a different local form. On average women are more pressed into drawers, they didn't ask for or they were less able to configure. Men are far from being free in their choices, but they were more often asked and had more chances to shape the conditions they were faceing. Men have all the right, to be not happy about their lifes or the world, even if this really is a man's world in large parts, as I claim it to be. But women still face burdens that I regard as being heavier, with less influence (for no reason) and less aknowledgement for their deeds. But that's just my perspective. You can have a different one, of course.Thanks for reading.

Gumbator

Hinder Taiwan? This would be an existential crisis for Taiwan. If China invades, Taiwan is over. At that point there is nothing to lose. MAD has worked as a strategy since WW2, and this is a form of asymmetrical MAD. Taiwan are holding their monopoly supply hostage so that it's not worth invading, that the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Quen-Tin

Well ... I don't see at least, that being a woman during the last millenias would have been a more desireable option, than being a man. Yes, my grandfather, fighting in WW2, was burdened in many ways. But he was also painting his idea of life onto a different canvas of historical context and expectations. We were brought up in the optimistic idea of being part of the winning team. Of inheriting problems, we could adress as an evolving society. Now it seems, like some parts of the game are difficult to win. Like we might have to arrange with getting less and not strive for getting more. Like the winners of yesterday have to struggle, not to loose in the next rounds. I think it is less about the factual hardships of life alone, but also about the psychological challenge, to walk into an unhealthy looking mist, while you were rather trained to settle a open field in bright weather. We have to reinvent ourselves and we might not achieve that in our lifetime, even if we try. Hitchcock once said, that there's no terror in the bang, but in the anticipation of it. I guess he was right.

netflix-ceo

At this point even a full on WW3 is bullish

ahuskybitjoffrey

Been around since before WW 11...

Inst_Sock_Sales_Rep

Germans hate Americans after what Americans did during WW1 and WW2

dakedenizen

As far as the stock market goes, this must be the most profitable war since WW2. Simply the prospect of not continuing fighting is driving the market up so much higher than before the war started, repeatedly so.

BeepBoopDep

Ber friday: WW3 IMMINENT, WE CRASHING, BUL FUK. Ber now: Please open under 1% green 😭 If only we could have seen this one coming. Not like every weekend for the past 2 months bers came out to cope only to get ass blasted at market open and sulk away like the cuck they are 🤡🤡

Worried_Quarter469

Iran wants guarantees from China, WW3 by end of summer

Blackhawk149

Bull case is we have not pump this much money into economy since WW2.

Fine-Refrigerator-28

Exactly, mass surveillance , 2nd amendment right constant violations , USD going down the shitter and will soon be toilet paper, soon to be food and water crisis, WW3, population crisis, global warming crisis like wtf who wanna be in their 20s right now?

Dependent-Media-1857

bro betting on WW3

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW closing at $12.79 with my average around $9.80. Still holding every share for now

Maddcapp

That’s WW3 doomer talk

dingleberry314

If WW3 happens the least of anyone's worries is how much crypto they own.

Wonderful-Process792

I don't know. The US interest there is just isn't *that* great. Seems more like, say, a Korean war than WW3.

Far_Version9387

You should retitle this to: “What stocks are you buying when WW3 starts?” Because if China invades Taiwan, WW3 has a 150% chance of starting. A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would affect the whole world and every single major market. Every stock except recession-defense stocks would be down. An invasion of Taiwan is a black swan event, not something that will only affect TSM and semiconductors stocks. It will have giant implications on every part of life.

Ok_Hedgehog_307

If/when China will try to invade Taiwan, stocks will be the least of everyone's problems. That's WW3 type of situation.

Tall_Candidate_8088

Dude, crypto is a scam but the people who initiated the scam are in control of your government and actively burning the dollar to ground to build out super computers and LEO communication satellites. As soon as the financial systems have been miked for everything they are worth they are going to light a match. Crypto is the hedge against the worst outcomes in WW3 or Civil War 2 or whatever happens. People need to start waking the fuck up man, everyone is investing in people who are posturing to not pay anything back and there's nothing anyone can do about it. People are investing in the companies building the surveillance systems that monitoring every single thing they do. No good will come of any of this so holding some crypto including a real one like XMR is really fucking smart thing to do.

ZaraBloom418

I made a joke post that was upvoted about how Gen Z has it the worst compared to any other generation. Dawg, WW1, WW2, and Vietnam generation had it word than us I’m upset people agreed with me

ZaraBloom418

I don’t think older generations understand how bad us youngins have it. It’s basically WW3 for us every year **2019:** Strait of Hormuz crisis  **2020:** Soleimani drone strike **2021:** Taiwan Strait tensions  **2022:** Ukraine invasion **2023:** Gaza war **2024:** Israel-Iran strikes **2025:** Red Sea blockade **2026:** Iran war

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW closed at $12.79 friday. My average is around $9.80 and I’m still 100% in 😄

lOo_ol

A lot of countries don't actively participate in it. Are you trying to say that one should either fight the US and start WW3, or help Israel slaughter civilians, with nothing in between? Spain's government cut ties with Israel, Ireland, China... But you know all this. My only point isn't Israel, but you ask for batshit crazy, I give you a genocide whose ultimate goal is real estate for an ethno-state. And despite the financial aid they get from the EU, without the US Army, Israel would be gone within a month, and you know that too. Besides, I'm not running some leftie purity test. You're the one acting like the American left is some beacon of virtue, always morally consistent, fighting for the poor and oppressed minorities, and anything wrong with the American society is to blame on Republicans, as if the left never had the time and means to do what every other modern country has done to curb the homicide rate, mass shootings, or offer universal healthcare and free college education... I would direct you to [this quote](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/13797450-behold-the-festering-carcass-of-american-rot-shoved-into-an), and particularly the part that starts with *"everything this country swears it isn't but always has been"*... So my initial point is why do you call them "fake" moderates? What do you think a real moderate is, as if Trump reaching power twice was either sheer luck, or two military coups. You should ask yourself why his rhetoric was succesfull, and why Americans saw no problem electing a convicted felon who stole from charities and bankrupted casinos, and can barely put together a sentence. Trust me when I tell you that someone like Trump wouldn't get more than 10% of votes in Canada, Norway, Spain or Finland.

Simran-0

Market is closed 3 days for WW3. No such thing as a CoInciDeNcE

PM_ME_UR_BASILISKS

Bear trap Friday sour hour dump for a liquidity sweep and to convince them WW3 was starting this weekend. Gotta love it.

mwesty25

First time opening WSB today. Are all the bears still hoping the “fake” peace talks fall through and WW3 starts?

JumpPackPenguin

Maybe he is from the future but they gave him meds to calm down. Tell them to check for WW I gun shot wounds on his body. Have you never seen 12 Monkeys?! This was a tip from the future to a kind stranger, who helped a man on his mission.

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW at $12.50 now, that is +25% for today 😄 Still 100% in. What a crazy few weeks this has been

CasherburyTales

Busting out my WW2 jokes at the Anne Frank museum was not a good idea

le_pedal

Why is Europe so small? WW2 was basically Pennsylvania vs New York and Ohio. FFS

mwesty25

Bears in shambles because WW3 is canceled

SighRamp

Why TACO alwasy bragging about wasting tax payers money on big navel ships, tech from WW2 when cheap drones are move powerful? Wild. Calls on IBM!

31andnotdone

i'm johnny knoxville and this is catching WW3 with weekly calls

tristis_veritas

Proof is subtle but exists. Spiraling US debt crisis 30% of GDP zooming up to 125%. Multiple consecutive surpluses to WW2 deficits. Constantly printing money to service debt market can't absorb. Green line will keep going up but we will all be poor and suffering.

mwesty25

Sorry WW3 didn’t break out for you to make a couple shekels

zero0n3

Their mission is irrelevant when they become public and have to report to the board / stock market. That said, they want golden dome, starlink and all the military shit that comes with it, and to be the best lift system to space. What makes SpaceX big is their goal to be able to do \~150 launches a year (per pad!). Hell, they NEED close to that number of launches for Starlink maintenance (launch 10,000 Starlink satellites a year; roughly 100 per starship; because constellations goal is to have 40-50k total with a 5 year lifespan…) They have 10k up there now. Let’s say only 8000 service consumers. (Rest are dev or test etc). If everyone is saying their revenue is all Starlink and it’s about 11 billion in 2025, that means each Starlink satellite generates about \~1.4 million a year in revenue. (11b / 8000) That’s 56 billion revenue per year. Just assuming current Starlink revenue and with an unknown capacity understanding. Not including revenue from launches for other companies like government, or HPC satellites (aka AI inference satellites). Additionally, assume golden dome is legit… Because controlling who can get to space is about as important as who controlled the sea / air in WW2. Star Wars program is likely restarted and an important long term goal of the US MIC. why? Because having a weapon system that can shoot down any rocket that goes into space (say anything over 200km) doesn’t just mean you can eliminate ICBMS, but it ALSO means you can stop an adversary from intentionally trying to fuck with your space based network constellations and make sure it’s not polluted with rubble. If everything depends on that, protecting it is just as important.

Sorry-End-9897

I’m waiting. They announced their total addressable market is 28T. That’s pretty wild. I think only WW3 could possibly make it that high in the next 10 years.

MeneerDeAdviseur

WW closing +6% today and I am still 100% in. Curious to see if momentum continues tomorrow

Zef-Daytrade

No way people can take all their money with them, especially when China's currency was toast. USD and gold was the two most valuable ones, and no way you can carry enough gold either, and people wont have enough USD on them to really make a dent. Also the old taiwan dollar was replaced, so those who had money pretty much had their money become toast from the devalue of the old TWD (exchange of 1:40000) Even that link said Taiwan they siphoned gold from China, also they embezzled US money during WW2 like they did for Operation Matterhorn (in that wiki too) But following your train of logic, then it would be likely a high ranking military trusted of Chang Kai-Shek, or someone that knows him personally that rubbed their elbows after the war.

Zef-Daytrade

your mixing your dates wildly.... that is a huge time skip way way after Sino-Japan war.... like 50 years later when China started really get into western tech. your original comment was more about WW2, and less about China's adaption of western tech 50 years later.

huehuehuehuehuuuu

In case you didn’t catch on, this grandfather also trafficked girls from the low income families in his town. He. owned. their. daughters. They were part of the goods being traded between the gentry. His serfs paid him with their children when they were short on rent. He traded the extra girls he didn’t want for art and calligraphy pieces. This was the pre-WW2 good old days. My coworker both loved and loathed her own grandfather, who according to her was a cultured patron of the arts, a poet, a gentle old man, and a human trafficker who had to flee his homeland because new management took away his town and tried to arrest him. To his deathbed he didn’t think he did anything wrong. She was lamenting how we’ve come to full circle with the he who didn’t KO himself files. So yeah, you don’t need a middle consumer class to keep a country going, and to keep a small upper class very very rich and comfortable. They don’t need your money when they own you entire. You are the literal goods. Your time, your skills, your labour, your children, your physical body.

huehuehuehuehuuuu

In case you didn’t catch on, this grandfather also trafficked girls from the low income families in his town. He. owned. their. daughters. They were part of the goods being traded between the gentry. His serfs paid him with their children when they were short on rent. He traded the extra girls he didn’t want for art and calligraphy pieces. This was the pre-WW2 good old days. My coworker both loved and loathed her own grandfather, who according to her was a cultured patron of the arts, a poet, a gentle old man, and a human trafficking pdf who had to flee China because the new great leaders took away his town and tried to arrest him. She was lamenting how we’ve come back to full circle with the he who didn’t hang himself files. So yeah, you don’t need a middle consumer class to keep a country going, and to keep a small upper class very very rich and comfortable. They don’t need your money when they own you entire. You are the literal goods.

Own-Cauliflower-6992

WHOOOO CAAAAAARES there's too much money to be made to concern yourself with pedantic things like 1. Whether we're at war and whether said war will spiral into WW3 2. Whether oil supply constraints will upend the debt market and cause a global recession 3. Whether treasury spikes will blow up our debt, leaving hyperinflation as the only available choice to dig ourselves out. What's with these nerds with their numbers and charts and shit? I'm getting rich over here!