You've heard of the Pump and Dump:
Melon Husk has done this most notably in his purchase of Twitter. He absolutely worked to devalue that company prior to cutting a check for controlling interest. I've begun to suspect that exactly the same thing is being done to the United States as a whole: the bourgeoisie is attacking established systems in an attempt to not simply seize the means of production from the people, but to devalue it heavily to a point where they can buy it up for increased profit.
I suspect a few of us could make arguments in either direction about this conjecture, but I still think there's a lot of truth to it. You can't help but wish you had the means to benefit from these devalued assets while they're "trashed."
What could that mean? Maybe buying DHL, UPS, Fedex stocks, knowing that the USPS is going to get trashed. Or maybe it means buying up shitty offshore wind stocks, knowing that Trump can't live forever and that NJ, NY, and Delaware will eventually resume their massive, government funded investments in the technology (or, invest in the engineering firms that help pull off the installations, you'd have to do your research).
I'm not trying to diminish the horror of migrant children stacked in mass graves in the desert, which we strongly suspect is coming, if not already occurring. What I am trying to do is preemptively apply the lens of history to the current moment based upon lessons learned from China's cultural revolution, the constant churn of sub-Saharan Africa, and a very short modern history of Poland, Ukraine, and Italy, just to name a few.
I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this.
Quote:Pump-and-dump is a manipulative scheme to boost the price of a security through fake recommendations based on false, misleading, or exaggerated statements.But have you heard of the trash and cash? In the trash and cash, someone drives down the value of a security through disparaging statements and such, then buys it up while its cheap, and reaps the benefits when it recovers its value.
Melon Husk has done this most notably in his purchase of Twitter. He absolutely worked to devalue that company prior to cutting a check for controlling interest. I've begun to suspect that exactly the same thing is being done to the United States as a whole: the bourgeoisie is attacking established systems in an attempt to not simply seize the means of production from the people, but to devalue it heavily to a point where they can buy it up for increased profit.
I suspect a few of us could make arguments in either direction about this conjecture, but I still think there's a lot of truth to it. You can't help but wish you had the means to benefit from these devalued assets while they're "trashed."
What could that mean? Maybe buying DHL, UPS, Fedex stocks, knowing that the USPS is going to get trashed. Or maybe it means buying up shitty offshore wind stocks, knowing that Trump can't live forever and that NJ, NY, and Delaware will eventually resume their massive, government funded investments in the technology (or, invest in the engineering firms that help pull off the installations, you'd have to do your research).
I'm not trying to diminish the horror of migrant children stacked in mass graves in the desert, which we strongly suspect is coming, if not already occurring. What I am trying to do is preemptively apply the lens of history to the current moment based upon lessons learned from China's cultural revolution, the constant churn of sub-Saharan Africa, and a very short modern history of Poland, Ukraine, and Italy, just to name a few.
I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this.