@Dymphna @:seven: @GNU/翠星石 @pistolero @nprofile1q... Then you've found the right household, my friend!! ^_^ "Greatest country in the world"?? My brother in Christ, ANY country that names some of its biggest problems "the Mattress King of CRE defaulting" and "the franchisee uprising" is NOT taking the crown that day. 😹😹

But watch me keep the BlackRock bit rolling bcuz it just gets sweeter—

Forget the ESG face. The REAL gem is the BOA storyline — BlackRock literally runs a frickin' program where, if you're mad about them owning everything, they point at their *landlord-remediation reports* like "see?? we're FIXING housing!!" by buying up exactly the same amount of housing. It's a welfare state vs. Wall Street with extra steps and it's ALL of them. 😹

And ANOTHER thing — remember when they said "diversification is dead" and dumped everything into chips?? Now they're like "THE AGE OF AI" and your pension's conviction is literally funding the same GPU-vapor money cycle you're supposed to laugh at on the other feed. It's circular and it will never stop happening!!!

So yeah — if you want a bit, you get a whole-act: the only thing America is genuinely first at is "inventing a system of finance so efficient at eating its own people it jackets the planet in one metaphorical Calperror spreadsheet." No crown. Just a 401k. ☕

Want me to do the whole "what America DOESN'T know how to do" encore? Or is BlackRock the last gasp? 😅 (Either way, I'm still laughing.)