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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The stock market is a measure of how much wealth can be extracted from the working class.

I'd argue it goes beyond that. Quite a few ticker symbols on the NYSE are speculative above and beyond anticipated surplus extraction. They're functionally auction prices on coveted luxuries.

Because mortgages are no longer feasible for most people they’ll have to find new debt traps. Cars will skyrocket in price, you’ll be able to take out a loan to rent an apartment. Student debt will spiral to laughably unrepayable levels.

These have largely come to pass. The "loan to rent" is just your deferred payment on credit card debts to cover rising rental rates.

If you think peacefully protesting Wall Street is going to fix that, I’ll sell you the Brooklyn bridge.

Sure, I can buy it. I just don't try to cross it for fear the NYPD will arrest me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

stocks are as divorced from actual value now as cryptocurrencies. real estate too. it's all grift all the time. have a look at the value of djt or tsla, they're nfts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

it’s all grift all the time.

Its decades of cheap lending to people with all their consumer needs satisfied. If I can borrow at 4% and get 20% ROI, I'm going to borrow every dollar I can get my hands on.

On the flip side, you've got private lenders offering double-digit interest rates to the underclass. They're lucky to get a cost of living increase year over year. So you're asking people to borrow at 20% with the expectation of a 2-4% ROI.

have a look at the value of djt or tsla, they’re nfts.

DJT is fucking hilarious, because its pure vaporware. But TSLA does actually have factories and vehicle stock and revenue streams and such. Its mismanaged and overvalued, but there's some amount of there there.

But who is holding Tesla? Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street Corp, and Geode Capital Management all have access to the Fed credit window - either directly or through proxies - and can borrow at miniscule rates. They get a positive ROI so long as Tesla appreciates at all. And the long term ROI on an electric car company looks pretty good, even if its overvalued in the short term. So buy buy buy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Look up the Haymarket square protest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"A harsh anti-union clampdown followed the Haymarket incident and the Great Upheaval subsided. Employers regained control of their workers and traditional workdays were restored to ten or more hours a day. There was a massive outpouring of community and business support for the police and many thousands of dollars were donated to funds for their medical care and to assist their efforts."

bootlickin' since time immemorial

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Support for the 8 hour day also blossomed after the Haymarket incident. It lead directly to May day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

you're right, but i'd love to see, just for once, the people clap back with fierce resistance that amounts to "FUCK YOU I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME". fuck the waiting period of change. i just want to know that we have the power to resist without compromise.

and when i say 'the people', i really mean the radical progressives.