"Inflation" is the perfect hidden tax. If the government took 10% of your bank account, you’d riot. But if they print enough money to make your bank account buy 10% less, you just blame the "economy" and keep working. It’s the same theft with better PR.
Home ownership is being intentionally transitioned into a subscription service. Institutional investors aren't just "buying houses"; they are ensuring that the next generation remains a permanent renter class, forever paying off the debts of the elite.
"Saving money" is a trap for the poor. The government prints trillions, devaluing your labor by the hour. If you aren't buying assets, you are just watching your life's work evaporate in a bank account that pays you 0.01% interest.
The elites don't want a "free market." They want a "captured market." They use regulation to kill small businesses and bailouts to save their own. We have capitalism for the poor, but socialism for the rich.
The billionaires (and the trillionaire) have decided we all don't need a "middle class" anymore.
You'll go from peasants to slaves in a blink, and there are some amongst you that will applaud and celebrate their own enslavement.