The priests of The Market believe that the world must be destroyed in order to serve the greater goal of quarterly profits. They believe The Market will choose its most ruthless adherents for salvation on private islands and in bunkers while the world burns. Perhaps most strangely, they believe their faith in The Market will protect them from being immediately killed and perhaps eaten by the servant caste they intend to surround themselves with in the post-apocalypse dystopia.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2024
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~~The line goes up.~~ The demarcation must ascend. It is the will of ~~god~~ the market, in which all things are made ~~possible~~ profitable. https://youtu.be/ao-Sahfy7Hg
The Invisible Hand be on us all in these difficult times.
I can't find it, but I'm sure there was an xkcd about trusting things that were formatted like Wikipedia articles, with citations
Did Matthew McConaughey write this?
This is more or less the plot of Hickman and Coker's The Black Monday Murders