- cross-posted to:
- uspolitics@lemmy.world
- usa@midwest.social
- cross-posted to:
- uspolitics@lemmy.world
- usa@midwest.social
The White House posted a dehumanizing video Tuesday using the sound of detained immigrants being deported with the caption “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight.”
What I don’t get is what do the rich plan to do when Trump destroys the economy? If the USD is worthless, they aren’t rich anymore.
No? They don’t hoard dollars, they hoard deeds if anything. Should the bottom fall out of the American Market, they’ll just pack it up and go to China or Russia or Europe. Their holdings won’t lose value over time, and anything short of super steep taxes on unrealized gains or nationalization won’t really affect them.
Those won’t happen because it’ll catch up the petty bourgeoise in the thresher, and common Americans won’t stand for that.
They can convert that money into control/ownership over land and people.
If the economy is broken for everyone else, but you control the survival of people (through destroying or blocking labor laws, wage protections, public insurance, and eventually distribution of food and water, etc) and the space around those people (land, property), that control will outlast the economy and potentially the government. That’s because they can afford their own monopoly on violence in a given domain, if the state’s monopoly falls apart.
We’re not quite there yet, but fiefdoms could yet come back in style.
Except they don’t have money they have stocks. And if the market crashes what do they have.