everyone keeps whining about inflation while ignoring twelve hundred pounds of american cast iron sitting in some guys barn for five hundred bucks. modern finance is a collective delusion powered by worthless paper and trash code. you think your APY matters when the power grid goes dark. a vintage south bend lathe produces real utility because you can physically make replacment parts on it. try machinin a lead screw with your memecoins when supply chains collapse. fiat cope is reaching critical mass while heavy equipment just sits there accumulating cosmic weight.