"At the end, gamblers hid in profitless Amazon aka. China-Direct, while the economy imploded..."
Nordstrom
Fossil
JC Penney
They're still hiding in Amazon 666, where they'll be buried...
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.