Unfortunately there IS a point to a serious financial downturn

The point is to teach people one more time that

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH

I know I will also be hurt by a financial crash but I’d rather deal with that pain so my children can enter their adulthood in a healthy economy (instead of inheriting the current economy with its $70 trillion in unfunded liabilities to the baby boomers and its need to doctor economic statistics with things like the birth-death model that the BLS uses to lie about unemployment levels)