It's really unreasonable how I continue to require food each and every single day despite many attempts to just not.
Sorry everyone! Didn't mean to let you all down. Will try harder next time.
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Please stop breathing while you are at it. You are causing global warming!
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Yeah, haven't you ever tried not eating? Or better still, what about just not living! Don't knock 'til you've tried it serfs.
Sorry guys forgot to turn off the inflation switch when I went to pee
Again!? One more time and we’re going to have a serious conversation!
SPEND MORE MONEY YOU POOR FUCKS. YOU CAN'T EXPECT THE 1% TO HELP!
People hate inflation, just not enough to spend less: This is one of the central tensions of today’s economy, in which things are going great yet everyone is miserable. And in some ways, Americans have nobody to blame but themselves.
The article is mostly paywalled, but seems based on the opposite idea, that inflation is "too much money chasing too few goods", I.e. demand-pull inflation. Inflation would go down if people just bought less stuff, the idea is.
I always hear the argument that to help the economy, people need to spend more. I am also seeing that some people just go further into debt in order to not compromise their quality of life. Both are bad and not helping apparently 😂
It's like households being told to stop wasting water, or petrol, when companies aren't held accountable to the same degree. The average person simply cannot tip the scales in the same way that a multinational corporation can. Or the 1% or 0.1% even.
I don't accept any assertion based on theories whose base assumption is that Humans are rational.
Eh, touche. Though, that's a bit extreme and binary, I'd say. Sometimes humans are rational and sometimes (a lot) they/we are not.
When some difficult concepts are explained to me (cryptography, quantum mechanics, Quaternions, etc. Are some concepts i recently visited) the gears grind in my head. I understand SOMETHING at the end of the ordeal.
But you try to explain me economic theory, various instruments for holding wealth, how stocks with voting powers work and I come out of it convinced it's an elaborate obfuscation invented to dodge taxes, launder ill-gotten gain, confuse normal people so they lose money to the hedge funds, trap companies and take them over.
Everything about financial markets is anxiety inducing and give off a "Hey, this thing has weird loopholes... pretty sure some rich dude is making good use of it to siphon money out of the general population" vibe.
Well put. I can relate and think you articulated the problem well. When it's all said and done, the greater "stock market" and Wall Street network is simply irrational, unreasonable, opaque, and illogical - largely by design and on purpose. The only way it becomes "rational" and "reasonable" and "logical" is when viewed through a lens of corruption and deception.
It is satisfying to see a post from our community pop up in my feed while browsing through all.
I'm pretty sure all of those are real headlines (came across a completely 'shopped NYT headline and writer on X lately - take this as a reminder!) - the last one is real, at least: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/inflation-prices-buying-habits/676191/
INFLATION IS YOUR FAULT If people are so mad about high prices, why do they keep buying so many expensive things?
By Annie Lowrey
People hate inflation, just not enough to spend less: This is one of the central tensions of to
Rest is paywalled. Anyone have the rest?
Sounds US centric though while inflation is global.
Could try 12ft.io - that's my go to when trying to get past a paywall to read an article.
I totally read this a 'rest (as in relaxation) is paywalled'. And yes it is. When moass happens, I'm doing something I have not done in over a decade. Taking a vacation.
You need a Paywall Bypass solution STAT. You're missing out on so much content.
Maybe they're becoming aware that their currency is being inflated away and losing purchasing power every day and are grabbing as much as they can before it vanishes? Dunno, just a thought.
"Victim blaming isn't real!" Victim blaming:
It's clowns all the way down. Just ask Paul Clownman here.
I didn’t realise I was a high payed ceo price gouging the public
Well, yeah... but that's kind of the OH!
You mean economic!
I don't even read the Atlantic articles
Well tbf, some of their stuff is good. But this one is from 'the Atlantic, Ideas' which is probably an opinion piece. Opinion pieces are more a reflection of the author than the publication. So fuck who ever wrote this. But don't hate the entire company
Inflation is DEFINITELY my fault
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