I think there was a study that shows torture doesn't really work. Some give away false information or the information that the one doing the torture wants just to make the process stop. The study could also be false and just wants the inhumane practice of torture to stop.
For the financial aspect though, I do hope this torturous bear market will end soon. I don't have as much assets as I would like, but it would definitely help me financially. I am frugal and stingy, so even if my assets appreciate astronomically, I would probably reinvest a lot of them to gain passive income.
Perhaps it works as a warning to others :D
I suspect that torture likely works well enough to keep doing it. Inhumane or not, those in control want to stay in control. A lot of government practices are inhumane too, but just at a different scale and applied en masse.
One or two cycles of this and everything looks different, right?