The Green Ride of the Stock Market: A Modern-Day Green Horseman of the Apocalypse

The exponential rise of the stock market, exemplified by the S&P 500’s 175% surge since 2020, evokes an unsettling parallel with the Green Horse of the Apocalypse—a symbol of death and destruction in biblical prophecy. While the “green” in financial markets traditionally signifies growth and prosperity, in this context, it masks the profound human cost underpinning such gains. Millions have perished due to COVID-19, wars, and conflicts, and tens of millions more have been displaced or plunged into economic despair. Like the apocalyptic horseman, the relentless march of the markets leaves devastation in its wake. The stock market’s ascent feeds on crises—pandemics, wars, and inflation—profiting from the suffering of ordinary people. Housing becomes unaffordable, healthcare inaccessible, and the environment further degraded, while the wealthiest grow richer. The “green ride” of these financial systems, detached from the realities of human life, stands as a harbinger not of prosperity but of inequality, exploitation, and systemic collapse. In this light, the stock market’s green trajectory seems less like a symbol of growth and more like an ominous warning of the dehumanizing features of the contemporary financial, economic and political apparatus.

The Stock Market Surge Reveleas its Facet of a Dehumanizing Nazist Financial Apparatus

The extraordinary surge of global stock markets, such as the S&P 500’s 170% growth since 2020, underscores the clinical detachment of the financial industry and ultrawealthy circles, including groups like the World Economic Forum (WEF), from the realities of ordinary life. These elite networks operate in a realm far removed from the daily struggles of people grappling with war, inflation, and skyrocketing living costs. While governments channel billions into weapons manufacturing and defence contracts—funded by public coffers—ordinary citizens face austerity, dwindling social services, and economic precarity. The financial system, far from serving society, has become a mechanism of exploitation, extracting rents and wealth while leaving millions in hardship. This cynical detachment has roots in the Maison Rouge Plan, a chilling blueprint from the final days of World War II. Nazist industrialists envisioned a future where wealth would be funnelled out of state control and into private networks, laying the groundwork for a global capitalist order that thrives on wealth extraction and systemic oppression. The modern financial industry operates in much the same way: leveraging crises to inflate asset prices, widen inequality, and siphon off the collective wealth of countries and millions of people. For the wider humanity, this system has imposed severe hardships. Housing in countries such as the United Kingdom—a fundamental human necessity—has been transformed into an unattainable luxury as financial institutions and the ultrawealthy inflate asset prices beyond reach, while young generations are locked out of homeownership, burdened with rising rents, and deprived of economic stability. Meanwhile, financiers profit from inflated markets and rents, disconnected from the social consequences of their policies. This Nazist-inspired financial apparatus is not an abstract critique but a reflection of systemic priorities: profits for the few, suffering for the many. The global stock market’s rise amidst war, inflation, and social unrest is not a sign of resilience but a symbol of the extraction, oppression, and exploitation embedded in modern capitalism—a chilling echo of ideas born in the shadows of history.

The Global Pandemic Human Toll: A Grim Accounting

The World Health Organization estimates that around 14,2 million people have died from direct and indirect consequences of COVID-19, including healthcare system disruptions, economic fallout, and untreated illnesses, meanwhile, of Confirmed COVID-19 Deaths Over 7 million deaths have been directly attributed to the pandemic as of 2024.

Global Conflicts and mass displacement

The UN reports that global displacement reached a record 120 million in 2024, driven by these conflicts, economic instability, and climate change (https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1150981), from Lebanon to Yemen, Syria, and the Sahel region, wars have uprooted millions and claimed hundreds of thousands of lives since 2020.

Ukraine War: The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has precipitated one of the most significant displacement crises in recent history. As of October 2024, approximately 3.6 million individuals remain internally displaced within Ukraine. DTM IOM Concurrently, over 6 million Ukrainian refugees have sought safety across Europe, with Poland hosting nearly 1 million and Germany accommodating over 1.1 million. This mass displacement has profoundly affected Ukraine’s demographic landscape, with estimates indicating that up to a quarter of the nation’s pre-war population has been forced from their homes. Wikipedia The humanitarian implications are vast, encompassing challenges such as access to essential services, housing, and employment for displaced populations. The international community continues to mobilize resources to address these needs, but the scale of displacement presents ongoing challenges. Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has reached a grim milestone — with the number of Ukrainians and Russians killed or wounded in the two-and-a-half war nearing one million. Roughly 80,000 Ukrainian troops have died and as many as 400,000 have been injured, according to a confidential Ukrainian estimateshared with the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, undisclosed and unavailable data from Russia put Russian casualties at an estimated 200,000 men with the number of wounded at approximately 400,000, with the actual figure probably much higher.

The Financial Disconnect: Markets’ Lies vs Human Lives

While human suffering escalated, financial markets flourished: The S&P 500 Index climbed from a low of 2,237 points in March 2020 to over 6,053 points by late 2024. Global wealth concentrated further, with the richest 1% amassing disproportionate gains while billions faced stagnating incomes and deteriorating living conditions. This hiatus is not incidental but symptomatic of a system that prioritizes capital accumulation over human welfare. The massive government stimulus packages during the pandemic bolstered stock markets, yet failed to address the structural inequities that exacerbated the pandemic’s toll on the poor and vulnerable. Financial markets, thriving on volatility and crisis, exemplify a perverse dynamic where disaster for many becomes an opportunity for a few.

A Nazified Financial Capitalism

The term “Nazification” is provocative but deliberate and It seeks to highlight the systemic dehumanization embedded in modern financial capitalism, which mirrors the technocratic, cynical,dehumanizing efficiency of totalitarian regimes as was the Nazist Germany

The surveillance capitalism of today, coupled with state-backed corporate power, echoes the social control mechanisms of authoritarian regimes. Individuals are increasingly reduced to data points, their lives dictated by algorithms and market forces. Dehumanization of the Majority: The financial system views people as economic units rather than human beings with inherent dignity. Policies prioritize GDP growth, market stability, and investor confidence over healthcare, housing, and basic human rights. Profit from Suffering: Just as wartime economies exploited human suffering for industrial gain, modern financial systems commodify crises. The pharmaceutical, defence, and tech industries reaped enormous profits during the pandemic and ongoing conflicts. Global Inequities: The modern multifaceted roles of financialised capitalism operate in a framework where economic domination replaced overt military conquest, perpetuating colonial hierarchies in a financial guise. Rapid transformation and digitalisation of the economy have created the infrastructure and environment of mass-human life control and the abdication of the principle of private life and privacy. The digital economy exposes the masses to further forced exploitation and surrender of their civil liberties and civil rights, while compressed by the Nazist concept of technological replacement and diminishing marginal utility of human labour. The widely dystopian extreme of technological capitalism points to a society made of producers and consumers, units of marginal utility and efficiency, categorized and profiled by algorithms for their utility to the wider financial-technological infrastructure, rather than human beings, constantly traced by smartphone GPS. Meanwhile, displaced humanity in the hundreds of millions fear being culled for that vast amount of wealth continues to accumulate by a few thousand WEF club members and their shadowy drug and warlords affiliated. The shocking rise in global stock markets amidst widespread human suffering is a stark reminder of the moral bankruptcy at the heart of financial capitalism. Reversing this trend requires not just policy changes but a profound shift in societal values. If we fail to act, history may judge this era as one where humanity was sacrificed at the altar of market growth—Nazified capitalism that prioritized profits over human lives.