JackRiddler » Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:17 pm wrote:DrEvil » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:42 am wrote:JackRiddler » Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:48 am wrote:DrEvil » Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:04 pm wrote:^^Was the economy tanking when Trump got elected?
Yes. The economy is always in a process of tanking. It's a design feature. The next crash is always coming.
Sure, but it's the degree of tankage. It wasn't tanking nearly as bad back then as now.
You may as well say a transatlantic flight at 30,000 feet skirting the coast of Greenland isn't as low in altitude as it's going to be when it lands in London. "Booms" and busts are part of the program. Crashes are big cash-ins for the system owners. There are reasons why the political management is restrained from fully using the tools most effective in postponing (for a while) and lessening the impact of crashes. Bezos on paper is worth 70 billion more since the start of the year, and there's still no credible stimulus in the U.S.
This is most true in the U.S. Countries that still have more organized and semi-conscious lower orders, like Canada, have been dispensing money to households monthly. A few with more organized lower orders and less monetary sovereignty, meanwhile, are seeing upheavals and revolutions.
I agree with all this, my original observation was just that of all the times to waste money on fly-overs, now would be a pretty bad choice (unless, as Norton pointed out, you're part of the ruling class and want some bread and circus).
Money not spent on military dick-waving doesn't automatically appear in the coffers of social services, it's just saved for future dick-waving, but it's the principle: don't waste money on frivolous shit at a time like this.