According to Axios

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    As long as the stock market is fine, they do not care and will not do anything. That's the only metric that matters to them. If 90% of the population was living Mad Max but the 1%'s stocks were doing decent, it wouldn't matter. They're going to "optimize" the economy to find that sweet spot between their stocks hurting and general human suffering.