@Scale Smerch I'm actually fine with no bailout. I'm fine with a crash. I'm even fine with a decade long recession.
The chronic problems of society today are largely the fault of the government not letting unsustainable/stupid things naturally fail for 30 years at this point.... every time the consequences of excessive offshoring, excessive regulation, excessive crunch of the middle class or excessive wasting of capital on "the next big tech" come bubbling to the surface? They get a bailout and we get more inflation. And, with no reason to stop, if they'll be saved in the end? The madness just continues until we reach the point we're at today: basic consumers aren't even seen as the "real" customers anymore, workers are treated like crap, consumer goods are the cheapest trashiest poorest-quality I've ever seen them in my life, and we have to support whatever the clueless activist-investor class does as a moral imperative, even if it's clearly financial suicide.
I'd rather suffer 8 years of pure economic pain as the farce that has been EVERY economic idea since the 90's all comes crashing down than the daily death of a thousand cuts as I'm nicked constantly by either government directly or universities and media arms being given government permission to dive into my pockets for funding to keep the lie of infinite growth alive......