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Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy?
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IMO there is something more at work here. I believe he is collapsing the economy on purpose and evaporating everyone's savings, forcing them back into the labour force under any means. They want to go back to factory towns where workers have zero agency and are at the mercy of their employers. That is the end goal here, the rest of it is just the hand waving show to keep everyone distracted.
It's not that complex or Machiavellian.
Look at what rich people have done after every recession of the past 40 years and how what's happened to their wealth after the recovery. The economy crashes forcing middle-class people to sell off what scant assets they own. Even people on the lower end of upper-class tend to sell off assets when the stock market crashes. Super rich people who have enough money to weather the economic downturn buy the dip, gobbling up all those assets people are selling. Then when the economy recovers the rich people make out like bandits (which they are).
That's all that's happening. He's tanking the economy so Musk and his other rich friends can buy the dip and increase their wealth even more when the economy improves.
Time will tell. It's all about the layers, but if you look at the current situation at face value, it makes very little sense, ergo something more sinister is a foot 3-4 steps down the road.
It makes complete sense if you are looking at it from the perspective of an oligarch. They are just trying to tank the economy to hoover up even more assets. They're banking on an eventual recovery, after which they'll be even richer and more powerful than they are now.
As with most things in life, assuming some grander Machiavellian scheme is usually wrong. People don't think and plan like that outside of movies and TV. Most people, especially the very rich and powerful, only plan for the short term.
There is no 3-4 steps down the road. They're just trying to repeat exactly what they did during/after the COVID recession. And the Great Recession. And the '01 dot-com recession, etc, etc, etc.
Except he is using a playbook built by other people that we've only seen the gist of. This is manufactured, not eventual. He is also removing all consumer and worker protections. There is more too it, but keep turning a blind eye to just "more of the same" and see where that gets ya. I am saying the same thing as you, but I am alluding to it being a byproduct and not the simple end goal. They want housing under their thumb as well as worker protections and healthcare. There is malicious intent there, I'm sure of it. It is more than the accumulation of wealth.
I'm not turning a blind eye to anything. I'm just not making up conspiracies where there's clearly none. There isn't some hyper intelligent grandmaster planning everything out 15 moves in advance. This isn't Lex Luthor or Doctor Doom running the show. It's a bunch of morons whose understanding of economics ended with mercantilism asking ChatGPT how to run an economy.