Last night I had a conversation with a close friend of mine. We started talking about the economy. Full disclosure I am a full time trader i stare at charts for a living.
I've been warning him for over 2 years now that the plandemic and all the bullshit they implemented was going to cause a massive recession into a depression the likes of which we've never seen. That the credit crunch was gonna be unbelievable and that buying at home at all time highs during the plandemic was retarded and that he should stop pouring money into his 401k at his work.
He continued to pour money into those wortheless funds at work, he bought a house in 2021 which he got into a bidding war with and he even bought a new truck.
He is now complaining and blaming others about all the shit that's happening to him. He's going through a rough marriage, his work (new build developers) are now talking about massive slow downs and putting projects on suspension because the cost benefit analysis is weak etc etc.
He's mad at wall street for his problems. Just blindly pointing the finger at anyone but the mirror.
He's also giving me attitude lately because he finds it absurd that I can make money on a declining economy.
This is normie mentality 101. THIS is the core of the problem. Now I wouldn't even bother talking about the DS with him cause there is no point.
Things like the DS, the global "elites", compromised/incompetent/corrupt/depraved federal management and legislators, etc, so on and so forth, and NOT exist without normies refusing to pay attention to it all.
And not just missing it. Actually, actively refusing to notice. Adamantly refusing.
Adamantly refusing is what they do. Some of them simply can't see it. Others refuse.
All normies are ignorant. That's what makes them normies.
Some are stupid, and they can be forgiven.
Others are just fucking lazy -- willfully ignorant -- and that apathy is the root of most of society's problems.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."
-- Thomas Jefferson
He should have said, "... and every man able and willing to read, all is safe."