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by dnautics 1589 days ago
"People who have debt" is dominated by financialized instruments: shorts, options, forex, margin trading, etc. all exist due to easy access to debt at low interest rates.
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"People who have debt" is dominated, surprisingly enough, by people with debt. There are a lot more people with mortgages than people making leveraged trades.

For the rich loss of an opportunity to cheaply leverage their wealth is the gain of opportunities to lend their wealth at usurious rates instead, or to profit at the expense of the productive from simply selling off their assets and doing nothing with their cash but wait for the price to fall so they can buy stuff back for less.

For ordinary people whose net worth is mostly tied up in a property that's falling in value but not in mortgage repayments and whose wages are about to be reduced, the opportunities are less exciting. (Sucks for the rich trying to run companies rather than just letting their investment manager allocate their wealth to whatever grows it best in the current climate too)

You're counting domination in number of people. I'm counting domination in number of dollars.