A lot of people say that "Black Rock is buying up the world", often with a follow-up statement of "we need to stop them".
But, how can you stop them when they basically have access to free money?
We do not need to stop them, they are going to destroy themselves.
However, if you have your retirement account with them, they are going to lose that too.
"You vill own nothing and be happy" - Satan Klaus
And, how do you do this? You buy up all the real estate, and rent it back to the people.
You build 15 minutes cities prisons, on the grounds that you bought up, and you entice people to live there. Its free as long as the work hard, and keep up their social credit score…
If you have all the money in the world, you can buy up everything.
And since the people have to come to you, then you can make whatever demands you want of them.
What could go wrong with this plan?
The problems start when the cattle can see the walls closing in on them.
Paying some funny money to somebody does not mean you own the land.
We only respect property rights since a great many people of the community has property they want to keep. The po-po help enforce and maintain this social etiquette. However, you do not have to go to far to find that when the majority of the people do not feel they can ever own property by doing things the legal way, then they will start taking the property.
And there isn't anything T.H.E.Y. (Those Horrible Elitist Yahoos) can do about it. You can't hire the majority of the people to be law enforcers. You need the majority of people doing productive things. So, when the people decide to all just claim the property they are squatting on, then that property is no longer under your control.
T.H.E.Y. will start in the cities, building what T.H.E.Y. say is a communist utopia. The free minded people will start building small communities out in the rural areas. In parts where no one has built anything in hundreds of years.
T.H.E.Y. will not have control over enough people to do anything about these rural living tribes. And sending out the drones and the robot dogs will just be sending them spare part.
Where Black Rock is going to fail is that they cannot see the future. In specific, they cannot see the paradigm shifting.
T.H.E.Y. spent so much time getting people wanting to live in cities and work in cubicles. Why, "suddenly", are these people wanting to work from home and live on a homestead? T.H.E.Y. can't tell that they removed the reason why people would want to live in a city, so T.H.E.Y. are flabbergasted when people choose to not live there anymore.
Basically, the high priced property of today, will be tomorrows ghost town. And today's inaccessible remote region will be tomorrow's precious community homesteading spot. With means to make electricity and water anywhere, and flying cars, the cities that were built along trade roads, or along rivers, are pretty much meaningless. Black Rock is buying up property that will soon be abandoned.
The same can be said with Billy Gatez buying up all that farmland. He, unfortunately, has bought up dead ground. That land is all mined out. It will simply stop producing crops, no matter how much Roundup he uses on it. The farmland of the future will be areas people practice regenerative agriculture on. And this takes someone who cares, working their land. Not something a robot, or paid slaves can do. T.H.E.Y. will end up with nothing, when they thought they were buying up all the food production.
Further, Black Rock doesn't understand bitcoin. They are going to play their games trying to rig/control the market, and they are going to get soooo rekt. People are going to lose out on so much gains, because the ETF went up, but tripped the circuit breakers, while bitcoin did huge moves. And then we find that they only had IOUs, and not actual bitcoin, and so get in so much trouble. Everyone figures out that they should have just bought bitcoin, instead of an ETF.
So many things will see Black Rock lose, because they cannot imagine the world we are moving into. Further, they are tied to the old world. They will hold onto their losing position because that is what they think is important. Well, it was what was important, and they do not get why it is useless now.
It is the same with CBDCs and bitcoin. T.H.E.Y. cannot see why bitcoin is worth so much, and CBDCs are to be avoided. T.H.E.Y. believe that these two are essentially the same. The only difference being that bitcoin had first mover advantage, T.H.E.Y. think.
And when stocks get tokenized, it will be the end of the stock exchanges, and T.H.E.Y. won't understand this. Just like when the stock exchanges computerized, and people could trade on computers. They thought there would still be people on the floor bidding. But, as soon as it went on computer, the stock exchanges turned into a ghost town. (they have to get staff to walk around in the background on those interviews that are "live from the floor of the stock exchange". No one will want to use the stock exchange; no one will trust the stock exchange.
Basically, everything that was the old ways of the financial market will be dropped. And Black Stone won't notice it until it has happened, and they won't understand it once it has happened.
