If you wanted to create a plan to crush small business and struggling brick and mortar, you could not have done it better. The giants like AMZ and WMT are doing record sales while the little guys get obliterated.
Out little computer repair shop is up from last year, thanks to people getting their old machines serviced and updated. Barbers and restaurants are hurting big time.
>If you wanted to create a plan
Which is a fucking stretch tbh
No doubt they game the system/capitalize on anything and everything every way they can, that's a given, that's how they got rich in the first place
But organizing the whole coronapocalypse from top to bottom for a profit? The likes of bezos, zuckerberg, buffet, bloomberg? That's way above their pay grade, imo. That's the sort of stuffs some obscure military strategists would pull out of desperation for long term geopolitical gains eventually, that's not in the realm of myopic trading for a quick buck
Sure services like amazon banked on it, after all eh, you can't go shopping but deliveries work, so that's like being the last grocery store in town selling TP, it's christmas everyday
Same deal for social networks, with the lockdown everybody went for it for lack of better options mostly, so advertising, visitors and clicks went through the roof, normal.
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Now talking about bezos, he got hit pretty hard in the first phase of coronapocalypse
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/bezos-loses-7-billion-overnight-18-billion-in-a-month.html
>Bezos loses $7 billion overnight, $18 billion in a month, as market sells off on coronavirus fears
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If one wanted to be sure to capitalize on that crisis at the end of the day (I mean a sure shot at a net plus, no just crumbles with a bit a of luck), despite all the chaos and selloff, the bet would need to be placed on the bailout part. You capitalize on the fact you know you're going to get bailed out, now that's a plan, that's not random
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-new-cold-war-pretty-much-old-new-cold-war
>Russia was the perfect enemy because they projected that air of Orthodox stoicism, even while they were crippled and hemorrhaging. But China has always been the true target, the massive competition for Europe’s hand in imperial matrimony. With the worth of Russia’s only cash cow, petrol, spiraling and a new depression exploding from the economic bubble that the Coronavirus burst, America has quite simply run out of time to scapegoat anything but the real deal. Steve Bannon knows it, and his imperial wonk nemesis Bill Kristol knows it too. Evil or not, those twisted fuckers know a thing or two about the deep state’s long game and the long game is either China goes down or America accepts its Karmic fate as their debt-ridden bitch.
For a deliberate covidocalypse to be pulled, you have to have a valid reason, some strategic goal worth the collateral damages. That's like jumping in a flight of stairs with your enemy to land a sure kill, in that context that's worth it, that's "reasonable", logical, especially if you have zero credible alternative or if alternatives are all 10 times worse. That covdiocalypse would be the lesser evil in the end, in a nutshell
Collapse everyone's economy, yours included, in order to take down china's. So yeah you still get a hard landing in a flight of stairs, but someone else does the landing mat and that's how you prevail. It's still the cleanest shirt in the dirty laundry basket game.
That is, if any of this was intentional of course, to begin with. But even if it wasn't, initially, someone still have to do the landing mat.
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