"Deliberately crashing the economy creates opportunities for mass transfers of wealth from the working class to the billionaire class. This is oligarchy 101. Billionaires aren’t impacted at all by economic crashes. So what is affected? Small businesses that collapse. Mortgages that cannot be paid and foreclose. Goods and services that cannot be afforded. Public government institutions that lose funding and therefore faith. The billionaire class then goes in and buys up these small businesses, toxic assets (real estate), and privatizes these public services. Our agency and our leverage to use the dollar as a check and balance vaporizes, putting a perpetual renters market for all material purchases and putting a stranglehold on our ability to influence prices, standards of service, and salary. Why aren’t we just calling this what it is?"

— heyhoagiemouth