Step 4: the rich that bought the gold uses it to privatize all water and power to get it working again, now becomes even more rich.

If you want to reward your high profile friends so they can cash out with tangible assets before the whole currency or economy crashes, this is how you would do things.

The Muri kingdom, full of fascist Murcians

The French burn cars everytime they’re angry, it’s not really a Tesla thing. And they get angry a lot.

Cyberpunk 2077. But I don’t have to wonder about it. Its happening already.

In happens in a lot more places. Regulations make sure goods and services are up to standards. Without those regulations, you have check yourself each time if things are acceptable, adding costs.

And often it just costs more to get rid of the last freeloaders than accept there are a few in the grey area. You got to pay people to check and validate each claim for increasingly elaborate fraud and costs for that go to quickly, surpassing the savings you achieve.

Or also the only increase in workforce the U.S. will see.

They perhaps don’t need to. The staff in hospitals only got a few token coins as reward for the previous pandemic, and didn’t get much raise or better working conditions since then. People are already walking away because overworked and underpaid. It’s likely a lot of them just quit when a new pandemic would start and the hospitals can barely function.

Running things like a business means all the money goes to the guy at the top and his buddies, and the rest should be glad they still have a job.

His reality distortion field is collapsing.

The same people celebrating that Obamacare is gone, and being shocked when Affordable Care Act which they depend on suddenly disappears.

In the financial crisis in 2008, many countries deployed austerity programs to cut debts and costs. Their economies shrank and some still haven’t recovered from that experiment. And DOGE is austerity with a chainsaw, not with a scalpel. It’s going to hurt, a lot.

Government needs money to buy all the Cybertrucks and Teslas because sales are falling.

For conservatives, their team is morally good so can do no bad. The other team is morally bad so can do no good. And the law is there to punish the bad people. The end result is selective enforcement of rules and laws against certain minorities.

So that’s three judges about to get DOGEd.

Really speed running the “Why Nations Fail” checklist. Kill institutions, inclusivity, rule of law, pushing extractive industries. Educational and healthcare is already half death but still needs to get the coup de grâce.

Only 1-3 in 1000 die. It can go up to 3-10% for developing country conditions.

It reminds me a lot of the Herman Cain Awards.

Government told people to never drink raw milk. The sale and consumption of raw milk went up in ivermectin loving circles. It’s weird reverse psychology with raw milk.