Getting liquidated is never just a result of market volatility; it is a direct failure to study and understand the specific rules of the trading platform. Complex mechanics like automatic deleveraging are documented, and ignoring them is a choice that leads to predictable failure.
No political leader, whether in a democracy or autocracy, will accept the short-term blame for an economic contraction. The path of least resistance is always to print money and hand out checks, even though it exacerbates the long-term problem.
Official inflation metrics (rate of change) are meaningless to the public. People feel the pain of absolute price levels versus their stagnant wages, creating a disconnect that fuels widespread economic apathy and anger, regardless of what government data says.
The narrative that AI will disadvantage retail day traders is flawed; they are already being systematically beaten by sophisticated firms like Citadel. AI merely changes the identity of the winner who extracts value from the retail gambler, not the outcome for the gambler.
Using financial leverage effectively is not about intelligence, but about making trading a full-time, 24/7/365 profession. Amateurs consistently fail because they treat it as a part-time hobby, which is fundamentally incompatible with the demands of leveraged markets.
Classifying Trump as anti-socialism is inaccurate. As the first president to send stimulus checks directly to millions of households, he demonstrated a non-ideological willingness to use massive government spending and direct payments to maintain popular support.
The playbook of leveraging a large, low-cost workforce to become a manufacturing power is obsolete. Future competitiveness will be determined by automation density (robots per 100,000 people), making it impossible for nations like India to simply replicate China's industrial rise.
Western neoliberal policies of the 80s were viable without runaway inflation because of a one-time global event: China adding half a billion cheap laborers to the world economy. This massive deflationary force absorbed inflationary pressures, a circumstance that cannot be replicated today.
When people feel they can't get ahead through traditional means like saving, they turn to high-risk behaviors. Markets are increasingly treated as casinos by a population that sees 'hyper-gambling'—on everything from meme stocks to crypto—as their only viable path to financial escape.
The political hope is that AI-driven productivity will solve the national debt. The overlooked danger is that AI's first casualties will be highly-paid, indebted professionals (bankers, lawyers), whose mass defaults could crash the financial system before any 'age of abundance' arrives.
Since WWII, governments have consistently chosen to print money to bail out over-leveraged actors rather than raise taxes or allow failure. This long-term policy has systematically devalued currency and concentrated wealth, creating today's deep economic divide.
The debate over national debt is a distraction from the more pressing issue: AI will soon make many high-paying professional jobs obsolete. The urgent conversation should be about reforming society to share the resulting abundance, not fighting yesterday's financial battles.