we discovered that we could win big points on the game we made up by just letting all the real people die

phew

The fact that a headline like this is possible is one of the strongest possible indictments of stock markets' complete detachment from reality

Would it even be a crisis event if some people can't profit from it?

Stock exchange London was down......

I feel like today's crowdstrike/Microsoft outage may dent that. Says the guy sitting at the airport, flight delayed from the outage.

Yay?

“All systems go fuck yourself”

The shit they want will always be more protected than the shit other people need