"A corporation is a pile of money to which a group of men swear moral allegiance."-Wendell Berry

The stock market is where we all bet on the competitive moral turpitude of those men.

Violence is always supposed to flow downhill from aristocracy (see "God"). The liberals who helped build the Loser Production Machine with education and copywriting are terrified that the violence will stop on the floor below them and start punching up. So are the preppers.

In a society based on Competition, everyone forgets that Mother Nature is the one underneath with the biggest fists until the subway to Madison Ave or the bunker gets flooded.