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Poll: who wants the banks to fail/great depression

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Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
We just nationalized a bunch of shit, we're the new USSR

In Socialist USA, the insurance company owns you.

 
Originally posted by: shinerburke
A total failure of our infrastructure might not be a bad thing. If nothing else it would stop stupid fucking threads like this one from happening.

Would it though? I think we'd see just as many threads that are fucking stupid
 
Originally posted by: CptObvious
Originally posted by: Leros
Does anybody profit from a depression?
Debt collectors and foreclosure firms, probably

And booze maker. Serious, I read this article advising people to start buying booze stock. Stat supports people buy more booze when there is depression.
 
Fuck bank failures and a great depression, I want to see a supervolcanic eruption. Now that would really put some serious damage on human society.
 
Originally posted by: thehstrybean
I hope so. Honestly, the best way to fix something is to drive it into the ground and rebuild it. Banks aren't excluded from that. The government needs to butt out, let them fail (it's survival of the fittest here), and we can start over without "subprime" shit...

that's a retarded idea. Destroying everything because you're not smart enough to figure out how to fix it is never the best idea.
 
It takes a certain cynical, over-privileged mindset to appreciate the idea of the OP.
Honestly, I can dig it. It would be nice to have our life defined by external forces, which we could stand up against and would harden our character. Our soft complacent society lets many of us step on the treadmill of middle-class, suburban existence and die there, a good dose of tragic circumstances might stir the pot a bit.

As for me, my mother runs a rural dairy goat farm which could be converted to off-grid relatively easily, this is located next to my Aunt's homestead where they prodcue 80% or so of thier own food.

My wife is in her last 9 months of nursing school, for which there will always be some work. One of her hobbies is edible weeds.

Worst comes, I'm getting rid of the house, packing up and heading to the hills.
 
I don't want to cause additional hardships for those who already have them. The economy is really messed up, and it has been for a long time, but a huge failure/great depression would not be part of any good solution.
 
Originally posted by: rchiu
Originally posted by: CptObvious
Originally posted by: Leros
Does anybody profit from a depression?
Debt collectors and foreclosure firms, probably

And booze maker. Serious, I read this article advising people to start buying booze stock. Stat supports people buy more booze when there is depression.

Damn it, I need a dual purpose bike to go with my end of time plans :brokenheart:
 
Originally posted by: Mo0o
No. If you want hardship, move to Africa

Ooooh, here's one of the many "we're doing better than ____ place, so quit your whining" folk. STFU, you idiot, being complacent because the damn country is better relative to someplace else is pathetic.
 
Originally posted by: Leros
Does anybody profit from a depression?

The people smart enough to ride it out, save their money, and buy the stocks that people are trying to unload for cheap because they need the cash?
 
Originally posted by: manowar821
Originally posted by: Mo0o
No. If you want hardship, move to Africa

Ooooh, here's one of the many "we're doing better than ____ place, so quit your whining" folk. STFU, you idiot, being complacent because the damn country is better relative to someplace else is pathetic.

Actually no, he's got the right idea. Anyone who wants chaos and hardship just needs to relocate. There's plenty already.
 
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