only way that they're able to actually save anything is by putting it to the stock market, which is exactly what's happened. So increasingly the vast majority of society has to move into the stock market if they can put their money anywhere, if they have any savings. And so now you turn savers into speculators and all of these speculators that are invested in the stock market. And the stock market has gone from being a financial utility to what Ben Hunt calls a political utility to now being a political liability. And every time the stock market goes down, it is a fucking crisis because if the stock market collapses, people's entire life savings are wiped out because that's where people save their money now. And on top of that, there are a lot of other factors because the entire economy has not become conditioned on the idea that stocks always go up. And the authorities are invested in this process. But I don't know, that's my general sort of point of where we're going. So you get to (28/97)
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