[coverband]

They've literally done that though -- look at all the on-paper profits that have disappeared from the crypto, stock, real estate markets... Look also at the fact that you've already started paying more $ for the same essential products and don't expect them to go below today's levels...

[midislack]

That money's not gone, it's simply moved from suckers and rubes upwards.

[s1artibartfast]

That's not how unrealized profits work. If your stock was up 10x and now down to 1x, nobody made money from you