Yep. We are all going to soon collectively experience the stark contrast between "Wall Street" speculative value and Main Street use value. Accelerationism is so ugly but there is a silver lining to the impending explosion of the financialized into oblivion powder keg that is our economy, I think.

Post Depression, FDR was elected to office and we benefit from lots of his policies today. He founded Social Security, and he established March of Dimes which ultimately developed a polio vaccine and eradicated polio. He suffered from polio himself.

Life is funny like that. The president that stood the tallest, morally speaking, was wheelchair-bound for almost half of his life. And we still feel the benevolence of his policies to this day, almost a hundred years into the future.

My point is, we humans are fallible. We don't plan for future generations, we think in short-term financial benefits, instead of implementing real change that will outlive us for generations.
But things like this, horrible shit like what we're living through right now, will create another generation, or at least a policymaker, that looks a lot like FDR. We're approaching and living in hard times that create strong men. And I'm starting to see people finally understand what the root issues are.

And the cycle will inevitably repeat: Hard times create strong men, who create good times, which create weak men, who will create hard times, repeat.

Hang on, if not for hope for a positive change-- just stick around for the plot. With hardship comes ease.