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First do a 2-year buyers strike. Don't consume anything beyond necessities with a few exceptions. This is 2022 and 2023. Then in 2024, with ample savings cushion, do a nationwide workers strike and collapse the whole economy in the election year.
The mainstream economic assumption is true in financial markets. As prices rise, demand for financial assets rises. It creates a self-fulfilling runaway speculative boom, then turns into a self-fulfilling bust.
The reverse is true. Although there is some hoarding under high inflation, most people cut discretionary purchases. As the price of a hamburger shoots up, people skip eating out for lunch and make a new habit that lasts a lifetime.
Federal Reserve officials and most mainstream economists think that if prices fall, that will cause consumers to buy less stuff creating a deflationary spiral. But if prices rise, they will rush to buy stuff creating an inflationary spiral.
The central bank can't get lower interest rates without trapping people in inflation trades that blow up in their faces. Since they can't create inflation, they need you to believe they can.
In the near future, there will be politicians who say nothing today, raking some SEC or Federal Reserve official over the coals for not doing anything about the rise in Tesla stock. That stock alone will cause a $900 billion loss for investors.