The Takeaway — Collapse Isn’t a Flaw, It’s the Plan
The rich are not scrambling to prevent collapse. They welcome it — because they know they’ll be the only ones left standing. While the rest of us are told to “sacrifice” and “tighten our belts,” billionaires are building bunkers, buying private islands, and hoarding resources for the dystopia they see coming.
The tariffs are hurting America because American manufacturing - like all manufacturing around the world - depends on global supply chains. Do you think those container ships are still going to be doing business as usual after the collapse?
I think the techbro economies are designed with these kinds of constraints in mind. Musk and co can own a private fleet of these things especially once nobody can use them for normal trade anymore and people are desperate to offload them - if they even really need them in the first place.
They can buy and resurrect entire portions of the economy given their outsized proportion of wealth. Entire countries operate on less.