A crisis can sometimes be a turning point in life for those who are prepared.

For instance, when a pandemic struck, causing middle-class and working-class Americans to dive into the Hudson River en masse in despair, billionaires doubled their fortunes. Similarly, during the IMF crisis, those who foresaw the signs and hoarded cash to buy up real estate ended up sitting on mountains of wealth.

“A crisis is a blessing for some,” they say.

Those who profited back then probably couldn’t understand the lamentations of those devastated by the pandemic or the IMF crisis.

It’s reminiscent of how the British …