This is the point! They are crashing the economy on purpose to force an asset bubble onto China and the EU(Germany).

People keep saying we don't make things here so we can't support our own needs of consumption, but that's part of it. Technofeudalism is a goofy concept but it seems like the ruling class is all in on it. Whether its "possible" is dependent on how many people you are okay letting starve, and specifically who those people are. Crashing the economy, recessions is generally a good thing for the ruling class so they don't really care. And Trump gets to be king or some shit, as long as he does what is needed to maintain the rate of profit, which gutting social services and forcing people into unemployment, driving down wages, will certainly do.

Small business owners are some of the most ideologically backwards segment of our population despite being a major source of employment for the working class. They are constantly pressured by the conditions created by the "big fish," and like so many people in the middle class, are constantly in fear of losing their class position, their privilege, their standard of living.

Yoda actually gives a really good spiritual analysis of this: anger leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. If you replace his abstract concepts with concretions, and think of it in a class conscious way, the anger comes from the pressures people feel, the fear is the fear of their own and their families well being, the hate is the baggage of nationalism and class war such as racism, queerphobia, whatever scapegoat seems convincing enough to believe, and the suffering is what follows: lynching, war, unrest, starvation, apathy and alienation. The racism and queer phobia piece works really well, because it is the conclusion that we draw from basically everything that we incorrectly learned about how our system functions. If you hold strong to that logic, which small business owners follow in order to achieve profits and establish their quality of life, then racism, queer phobia, ableism, misogyny, etc are natural conclusions.

Wrt Yoda I've actually read lots of actual history and theory, I'm not trying to be ridiculous. But it keeps coming around in my mind, and its something that a lot of people are familiar with. I could recommend better books and shit, but this is just a post on Lemmy, lmk if you want recommendations though