I might have answered my own question - perhaps it's when we see corporations speculate and win it adds no value and is gross? But if they actually do come up with a better way to price houses and fix them efficiently it's a positive right?
For the parachute pants aficianados, the 1980's used the term poison pill to thwart certain strategies. The linear explains a lot of "fun the mentals/fundamentals" in place in 2022.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poisonpill.asp
Layoffs, housing price decreases, used car decreases, crypto crashes, balloning interest rates.
It looks like the updated strategy is "get them high enough to where the fall kills them" :)
It does sound like a macroeconomic saying if you look at several linears for each :p