Intentionally cratering the economy raises unemployment, which applies downward pressure on wages, and allows entities that are cash-rich and privy to the timings of the intentional market shocks to buy up large swathes of the country for pennies on the dollar, which makes the merger of corporate and government power smoother and more easily total.

J. Paul Getty happened to be in the right place at the right time for the 1929 market crash to result in an explosion in his net worth, what’s happening here is akin to ultra wealthy individuals recreating Black Thursday with the only difference being that it has been very publicly engineered and telegraphed in advance.

That is the steelman, if you think that those things are good things.