It's bonkers to me that some people have billions while I often go hungry purely due to lack of money. Why can't people see how unnatural this is? Has anyone read the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel? It's about cavepeople, but it's such a prime example of how society should be. No-one owns land, everyone is free to hunt and forage as they see fit. The only things people own are basic things like their clothes and arts and crafts that they make and trade with each other. It would be crazy to them if someone said "This land is now mine, you must pay me 50% of all your arts and crafts if you want to live here, pick the plants here or hunt the animals that live here." And yet, somehow the course of human history has led us to a place where a few have more money than they can spend in a lifetime, while millions starve. Why are we standing for this?

Here is my uninformed take.

Buffet selling Apple, the #1 share buyback company, tells me that they're expecting western companies to stop engaging on share buybacks ( using their business profits to buy shares and thus inflate stock prices, rewarding shareholders ), and start using their profits to reinvest in production. Tariffs are not going to save them from Chinese companies, the US market, while being huge, is no longer the only relevant one, the world has changed.

I think investment funds are betting ( or more likely, have insider information ) on western companies to acknowledge the current world context, and start dropping their neoliberal paradigm since this is a do or die moment for them.

Will this happen before or after Trump is in office? I feel like if the capitalists initiate the collapse during Biden's admin, they could get away with a lot more stuff under Trump.

They could also be changing stocks into cash simply because they expect higher interest rates for it under Trump.

so....it's time to get some cash to avoid those dirty deeds?

im so glad we just bought a house hahaha hah lol