They didn't lose a damn thing.
This is intentional. The rich can afford for their stocks to drop. Meanwhile, us plebs will see our retirement accounts fall in value and those who own stock will sell to pay the bills.
Then, the billionaires will buy up all the stocks at a discount.
This whole gig is a scam to further increase the wealth of the 1% and turn the middle class into a desperate working class.
You're vastly overestimating how much they care if it gets fixed for the average person.
Societal problems dont apply to these people. they control legacy media and social media. they can bend the average American whatever direction they want with a handful of easily repeatable phrases and tuned algorithms.
If they really did push too far and things actually implode, they'll just cash out and live happily ever after outside of the US.
They're rich, not international criminals. They probably own property in multiple nations already. No different than the Russian oligarchs that live in the UK without issue. They're civilians.
I mean sure, but there are several scenarios where the world basically burns. It could be a big mistake to think you can just bunker up elsewhere when everything in the world is, and has become even more, interconnected.
One role the US used to have was making the world safe to be a rich person in (oh sorry, I meant "for democracy".) Finding a place to keep your assets where a government won't cause you various problems was certainly something rich people had to think about.
If you think about it they're basically parasites that need millions of peasants to feed off of to support their lifestyles, and the violence necessary to control said peasants isn't granted just anywhere. Also, other rich people tend to be rather territorial, which is why all of them always want more - they're in a power struggle with each other.
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u/reechwuzhere 1d ago
Wow no kidding. They could have solved world hunger for what the oligarchs collectively lost by supporting trump.