Why did many powerful and rich people support Brexit? Crises shake up existing ownership structures, e.g. people sell houses and companies for lower than usual to cover rising costs. If your investments are spread out globally, you’ll be able to invest at these cheap low points, giving you a massive boost once the economy comes back.

Just look at home ownership since the mortgage crisis - so much wealth was transferred up, and it happens again and again.

More or less, a mix depending on which part of his base you’re referring to. For his wealthy campaign backers, most likely point 4.

Because it’s a matter of power to them first and foremost, the capital class will tolerate the economy crashing as long as it hurts you more than it hurts them. If anything, the economy crashing (so long as we don’t see total collapse) merely presents an opportunity to buy up the remaining pieces to add into their portfolios.

We already have a precedent of “too big to fail”, so Congress will just bail out the largest players anyways to all-but ensure this is the way things end up going.

They’ll grift their own winnings

1. The poor and middle class are stupid. Inflation got out of hand all over the world and profits went up faster than they did under Trump because companies were screwing us.
2. Businesses will be overall happy with the new regime because they can ignore more regs (better margins), fire workers more easily, merge and buyout competitors easier, and take advantage of more slave (i.e. prison) labor.

Anything bad that happens will either be framed as Bidens fault or the price of getting our finances in order.

All of the above.

Another one is that they think they can manipulate or bribe him into exempting their interests or targeting their competitors.

There’s also the true believers who fell deep into the cult and accept whatever Trump says as their current truth so economics isn’t really a consideration for them now.

I do think most of them don’t really believe him yet and won’t until he actually starts implementing the tariffs and rounding up immigrants. Then we get to watch them freak out while the economy crashes yet again.

It’s important to know that Capitalists support both the Democrats and the Republicans. Many donate to both, even. What’s important is to analyze what Trump offers that Harris didn’t.

1. Decreased taxation on higher tax brackets. Plain and simple.

2. High tarrifs on goods from China, as a means to combat the PRC’s rising influence globally and ideally force development of US industry. Marco Rubio is especially warhawk-ish about the PRC, which ties into the US Navy’s plan to be ready for a hypothetical war with the PRC by 2027

3. Austerity politics. Trump is slated to take a similar approach to Javier Milei and dramatically cut back on government spending, in many ways by selling publicly owned assets to private interests.

4. Strong anti-immigration rhetoric endangers undocumented workers, which means the Capitalists can leverage this fear to pay them even lower wages under the table. Instead of paying foreign workers microscopic wages traditionally and paying hefty transportation costs, they can have a super-exploited underclass domestically.

The important note about Capitalism, and by extension Imperialism, is that it starts to suffocate itself as it ages. The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall is only able to be fought through expansion or centralization, to raise the absolute profit margins, and this sell-off of government assets is one of the most effective ways to do so.

Now, more than ever, is a great time to start reading theory. I made an introductory Marxist reading list if you want to check it out! Feel free to leave feedback.

short term gains.

Capitalists are parasites who feed off of crises. Look no further than the COVID-19 pandemic, where the economy faltered and yet the ultra wealthy made record profits. These are not sane people interested in long-term sustainability, they’re egotistical psychopaths addicted to gambling, and their tokens are human lives.

A lot of them are motivated by power more than anything else. They want to feel superior and get off on the misery of others. They’d rather have a bigger slice of a smaller cake, even if the smaller slice of the bigger cake would be objectively larger.

“Chaos is a ladder”

It’s a two stage solution to today’s existing corruption and problems.

1. Break everything to expose the rot
2. Break it again to make sure it stays broken

Good money is on stupid.

Cause they’ll buy the dip and profit extremely from it

Every modern “capitalist” is just a wanton neo-feudalist. They don’t want to compete with other capitalists; they want to be feudal lords from whom the peasants (and capitalists) must rent their tools and resources and pay forever; they want the government to cement their fiefdoms forever.

Should be a known by all by now that capitalists are incapable of long-term thinking. They worry about the money right now. Can they make more next quarter? Well if yes then who cares about 10 quarters from now.

Besides, it’s not necessarily true that capitalists can’t prosper if the rest of us have a shitty economy. As long as the economy works for just them. When they say make America great again they’re not talking about the 50s, they’re talking about the Gilded Age.