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RE: Bitcoin was NOT in a bubble – the 2017 rise and the 2018 consolidation (Chaos Monitaur–34)
I see your point. And in a way, you have a good argument. Unlike the dot.com bubble and the sub-prime / real estate bubble, the current bubble does not actively involve Regular Joe.
So, when the massive financial bubble pops, Reg Joe will not lose on stocks, bonds, real estate, or other of his assets or investments.
However, I believe Reg Joe will still feel the effects, and will in fact be hurt by the effect. In a sense, it's gonna be like the 1929 crash. That resulted in primarily in the loss of the fortunes of the big, powerful investors and businessmen. But it had knock-on effects, which hurt Reg Joe for the subsequent decade.
This time, it will be the same. Or worse.
Yes, the knock-on effects on Regular Joe were terrible, because RJ was employed by the big, powerful investors. When they lost money, RJ got laid off.
This is probably a good point to mention that I do not believe austerity works to repair the economy; it works to enable the rich to buy up distressed assets for pennies on the dollar.
This is what's happening here in Argentina right now. The government is selling off the foreign reserves at great speed, nominally to satisfy the demand for dollars, thus keeping the exchange rate between the Argentine Peso and the US dollar stable. But the only people with the available capital to buy those dollars are the rich. Thus the net effect is a massive transfer of wealth from the national treasury to wealthy private individuals. The main theme of the Macri government is looting and sacking of the public treasury.
Of course this accompanied by the usual "privatization" of public assets, and we all know what that means. For more detail, you can see the article I wrote last week-
https://steemit.com/argentina/@redpossum/redpossum-mansplains-about-argentina