The idea that a crash is inevitable and that politicians like Trump are simply “shoring up” finances to brace for the impact betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of economics and causality. Crashes are not natural phenomena, like hurricanes or earthquakes—they are the result of policies. They are created. There is no economic law that dictates a collapse must come. Rather, collapses occur when governments interfere with free markets through coercive regulation, artificial credit manipulation, reckless spending, and the ideological subjugation of individual productivity to collective need.
As Ayn Rand argued, there is no greater destroyer of wealth than the belief that men exist to serve others by force. When governments, through central banking systems and fiat distortions, attempt to control and “manage” economies, they do so by severing the link between production and value. They punish the producers and reward the looters—those who consume without creating. If a crash comes now, it will not be because of some mystical economic cycle or divine reckoning. It will be because policymakers chose to punish those who build, innovate, and produce.
The Great Depression was not a consequence of laissez-faire capitalism. It was the result of massive government intervention—tariffs, price controls, banking restrictions, and Roosevelt’s destructive New Deal. Each attempt to “fix” the problem merely prolonged and deepened it. A free market left to adjust without interference would have recovered quickly and rationally.
There is no fundamental reason for a global crash today, except the growing and deliberate suffocation of free enterprise. It is not instinct that drives leaders to act—it is either cowardice before mob demand or hunger for control. A man who truly understands the system would not brace for collapse but prevent the policies that cause it.
You speak as if envy were virtue and self-pity a strategy.
You fear free trade not because it destroys you, but because it exposes you—because it reveals the bloated inefficiency of a system terrified to compete.
You call the foreign worker a slave, not to defend him, but to excuse your own stagnation. That’s not morality. That’s cowardice masquerading as principle.
You don’t grow stronger by shrinking the world to your level. You grow by building higher, producing better, and standing so tall they can’t ignore you. The man who demands tariffs is the man who has nothing to offer but complaint. He fears a fair fight and demands the referee cripple the opponent.
And you talk of percentages—how the U.S. must “preserve its share.” But a man who owns 10% of a feast lives better than one who owns 100% of a famine. You don’t eat shares. You eat food. You don’t raise wages with fences. You do it with skill, will, and work.
Trump’s plan is the delusion of the man at the bar who blames the world for his failure to change. You don’t raise greatness through policy. You raise it by unleashing ability. Trade doesn't weaken you. It reveals what you are.
If that terrifies you, the problem isn’t trade.
The problem is you.
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S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Apr 6, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1908858470985760876?t=ltYTKre4jBZEl1R9MoB9HA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2793
As Ayn Rand argued, there is no greater destroyer of wealth than the belief that men exist to serve others by force. When governments, through central banking systems and fiat distortions, attempt to control and “manage” economies, they do so by severing the link between production and value. They punish the producers and reward the looters—those who consume without creating. If a crash comes now, it will not be because of some mystical economic cycle or divine reckoning. It will be because policymakers chose to punish those who build, innovate, and produce.
The Great Depression was not a consequence of laissez-faire capitalism. It was the result of massive government intervention—tariffs, price controls, banking restrictions, and Roosevelt’s destructive New Deal. Each attempt to “fix” the problem merely prolonged and deepened it. A free market left to adjust without interference would have recovered quickly and rationally.
There is no fundamental reason for a global crash today, except the growing and deliberate suffocation of free enterprise. It is not instinct that drives leaders to act—it is either cowardice before mob demand or hunger for control. A man who truly understands the system would not brace for collapse but prevent the policies that cause it.
You speak as if envy were virtue and self-pity a strategy.
You fear free trade not because it destroys you, but because it exposes you—because it reveals the bloated inefficiency of a system terrified to compete.
You call the foreign worker a slave, not to defend him, but to excuse your own stagnation. That’s not morality. That’s cowardice masquerading as principle.
You don’t grow stronger by shrinking the world to your level. You grow by building higher, producing better, and standing so tall they can’t ignore you. The man who demands tariffs is the man who has nothing to offer but complaint. He fears a fair fight and demands the referee cripple the opponent.
And you talk of percentages—how the U.S. must “preserve its share.” But a man who owns 10% of a feast lives better than one who owns 100% of a famine. You don’t eat shares. You eat food. You don’t raise wages with fences. You do it with skill, will, and work.
Trump’s plan is the delusion of the man at the bar who blames the world for his failure to change. You don’t raise greatness through policy. You raise it by unleashing ability. Trade doesn't weaken you. It reveals what you are.
If that terrifies you, the problem isn’t trade.
The problem is you.
2/2
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Apr 6, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1908858470985760876?t=ltYTKre4jBZEl1R9MoB9HA&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2793
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