Just Buy Calls

(The Stock Market is Rigged)

Below is a post I made on r/WallStreetBets. It received more than 300 upvotes in two hours before being removed by moderators in the third hour.

The market will only go up because letting it go down would bankrupt the United States.

The US dollar is being debased and the elite are fleeing into hard assets.

The US is borrowing money to pay back money it already borrowed. It still has to fund the Ponzi schemes of Social Security and Medicare, while paying interest on gross federal debt already around 120% of GDP.

The retirement of boomers is tied to the stock market. This was done by design. Every month, automatic retirement contributions pump their savings into stocks, inflating valuations.

You saw it in 2008. When the system breaks, the government steps in and makes the public pay for the damage caused by its own monetary policy. If housing or stocks collapse, boomers lose the retirement system they were promised. As the largest voting bloc, they will vote to protect it, and workers will get the bill.

So the asset-propping will continue indefinitely, because the alternative is their own ruin.

Buy calls, or whatever.

The elite know what is happening. They are converting increasingly worthless dollars into tangible goods: infrastructure, housing, energy, data centers, and control over the systems people actually need.

Our money faces a legitimacy crisis, just like labor is facing one. You see the hiring signs. You see the real costs of housing and tangible goods. You see the closure of Hormuz choking the US out of cheap petrol goods. You know CPI is adjusted, massaged, and bureaucratized until it barely resembles lived reality. The US is not here to tell the truth. It is here to prop up asset prices for as long as it can, and to print more money once that stops working.

The future isn’t in the stock market. It’s in your own communities once this shit splinters.

Comments & Replies

Comment #1:
It genuinely feels like inflation is like 15% year-over-year. I need to actually go into the Bureau of Labor Statistics data and see how they come up with 3.5%.

My reply:
The rise of WallStreetBets is an inflationary signal.

Men are realizing hard labor has little reward. Wages will not outpace inflation, savings will not buy a home.

So men get by by gambling on the future. In a rigged game, it is the only rational move.

Comment #2:
You make some fair points but you’re in the wrong place. Only greedy people on this sub. We are only here to profit off of the downfall of the new Roman Empire.

My reply:
I’m telling you to copy the rich. The market is secondary. Their real power is real-world leverage: land, infrastructure, networks, and control over things people need.

Build your own leverage. Build your community.

Comment #3:
So I, a poor, should go buy infrastructure, networks, and energy?

My reply:
Plant a community garden, infrastructure.
Meet your neighbors and care about them, network.
Sleep well and stop checking your phone over micro-fluctuations in a stock ticker, you will have energy.

Comment #4:
I haven’t seen anyone talking about the real black swan event. Everyone seems to think that relative poverty is the worst case scenario for the common man.

If human labor becomes extraneous, economic systems as we know them today may simply cease to exist.

The people who own the resources and means of production could create their own private economies and trade amongst each other to feed and supply their own family and friends. If robots can mine, manufacture, farm, and transport, the owners don’t need to give anyone else a cut.
Techno-feudalism, but all of the peasants are on the outside of the city walls.

My reply:
Brazilification.

That is the future: private economies inside a collapsing public one.

The bubbles we live in online will become bubbles in real life. The rich will build private worlds once trust, labor, and currency no longer bind society together.

Comment #5:
I worked my whole life to get close to six figures a year. Now it’s considered chump change depending on where you live smh.

My reply:
You are living in reality. Your work had value. The dollars you were paid in are what became worthless.

Number go up is just the dollar going down.

Comment #6:
They can’t do this forever right?

My reply:
The elite don’t need to do it forever. They are building their life rafts. When they paddle away, the dollar won’t matter.

Everyone holding fiat currency is holding the real bag. The elite will own the physical infrastructure you need to survive. You will either pay them with your labor, or be pacified with a universal basic income that covers nothing but a shack and your basic calories, and maybe video games and pornography so you don’t think to revolt.

Comment #7:
What tickers to buy?

My reply:
All of tech. The elite are racing to replace workers and guards with robots before the workers realize they hold true power and the guards realize they hold the guns.

Comment #8:
How can we take advantage of boomers and their precious cash piles?

My reply:
Already happening with the rise of scammers.

Notice how nobody robs banks anymore? It’s too dangerous, and there’s no cash. But you know who are walking ATMs?

You may not like it but a shadow economy has developed around draining the elderly out of their retirements. The medical complex and nursing homes fleece them legally.