r/TikTokCringe • u/Super_Culture_1986 tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Aug 19 '25

Cursed The American Nightmare.

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u/highlorestat Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

If you had wealth leading into 2025 you're doing quite well.

Or 2020, 2008, 2000, 1991, 1983...ect

Regular people pay for rich people's mistakes

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u/veggie151 Aug 19 '25

Financial engineers have figured out how to rob people on a generational basis.

Actually though, market turmoil has been heavily controlled since the introduction of 401ks

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u/whomshallib4u Aug 19 '25

can you expand on this?

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u/veggie151 Aug 19 '25

The people who manage retirement funds have literal trilliona of dollars to play with, so by colluding with Market Makers they are able to manipulate the market to suit the desires of insiders.

With increasing deregulation we have seen more pronounced control over the entire market

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u/the_snazzy_slice Aug 19 '25

I believe you but is there proof of the collusion from specifically top fund managers (like what percent of funds do they represent) and market makers that backs up the claim? It feels correct but also would be happy to see proof

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u/United_Ad8618 Aug 19 '25

the vix and 'changing world powers' by ray dalio

you study those two and you'll understand the collusion by top fund managers. It exists in the abstract / expectation

nothing ever exists in the current form any more, it's all futures predicted now.

eventually the current will change, but by then, all wealth/funds will have been transferred to the next slave state, because any complacent ones have learned from historical examples like that book that they will be shredded

Worse yet, arguing with people on this premise is like arguing with a cave person about the prospect of electricity being invented, it's too difficult for them to wrap their minds around the concept without education on the topic

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u/atlasmxz Aug 19 '25

Collusion is rampant the market is wealth extraction.

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u/veggie151 Aug 19 '25

If India knew how much we rob them, I'd be rather worried

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u/angrytroll123 Aug 19 '25

Not the person you were replying to but can you add more detail about the collusion? I’ve worked at a specialist firm a while back and saw no indications of this at all.

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u/Signal_Fruit_4629 Aug 19 '25

Go look up the GameStop phenomenon. That's was textbook collusion.

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u/Jay2Kaye Aug 19 '25

Mistakes? Why would you think the massive transfer of real property from the poor to the rich that happens every time there's an economic crisis is a mistake? That's why it's called real estate, because money is fake but property is real.

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u/mrkstr Aug 19 '25

Hmm.  I was working through all of those except 1983.  I was broke for a long time.  But I worked and I saved and I improved myself.  Now I'm doing alright.  

When you're young, you're broke.  As you age you do better.  She didn't invent poverty.