Car rant on how recessions benefit the wealthy at everyone else's expensefrom @bradley.thor

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Oh, boy. Strangely enough, a lot of people are actually being weirdly quiet right now about the tanking of the stock market. And most of that is just because they're waiting for a new spin, a new way to tell you why it's important for us to endure a stock market recession, a rank, if you will. And then inevitably best out the gold spray paint and start spray painting that dog turd gold and then telling you that it is indeed 24 karat. Listen to me. No matter how you fucking voted, no matter how you fucking voted for the course of your lifetime, you should always be weary of any politician telling you that you need to tighten your belt while they're adding another notch to theirs. See, recessions are not very dangerous for people who are reporting to you about the recession. Now this might surprise some of you watching, but I actually did not like the fact that Walmart and Target got to stay open during the 2020 shutdowns when a lot of small businesses were forced to close. But this is a great caveat into what I'm about to say, which is it's a very similar situation for small businesses and individuals who are just citizens in The United States Of America. If you choke the supply of money and finances to the rest of America, the first things that dry up are small businesses, jobs, and everyday Americans, which could then turn out to be even more advantageous for giant corporations and very large stockholders because those people will be able to buy back a lot of stock and then put themselves in an even more powerful position by separating themselves further from the upper middle and middle class. If you go to a merch shop at an NFL game, the team shop, you can buy a hat and you can buy a shirt, and you can feel a part of a team sometimes. You can feel like you are a piece of it, but you don't get to put quarterback on your resume. You don't get to put linebacker on your resume. See, you're paying to be a part of that team. You're paying to be a consumer and watch other people score those touchdowns. You know what I mean? Even though you're wearing the logos and the hat and the tier shirt. So how many seasons do you wanna go through? How many seasons do you wanna watch of absolute and utter failure before you start feeling like maybe you wanna take the hat and the shirt off? How many seasons do you want a coach to tell you you need to wait multiple years before the team gets better? What's your number? The developed brain of a human that doesn't want to get clowned allows themselves to wait before making up their final decision on how they feel about a performance. Now I do understand that ebbs and flows are inevitable when you're changing large policies, when you're changing the way things work. I do understand that. But my question is to you, why should hardworking everyday Americans be the first on the chopping block when proportionally tier have so much less to be able to afford to give in a situation where the economy is drying up. Like proportionally, there are people that could help us get out of this mess by paying their fair share way before you've good to decide between name brand or non name brand eggs at the store. And an even crazier concept than that, they would still be rich. Very, very fucking rich after helping. Anyway, wood chopping maybe just got a little bit more relevant.