Reminder that inflation isn’t a phenomenon that’s beyond our understanding or ability to control. Inflation is the result of business owners choosing to raise prices in order to increase their rate of profit. That’s all it is.
This!
Not that I disagree with you at all, but we all want raises every year too. For you to get paid more you either need to take a higher level job or get a raise.
If course, inflation has exceed wage growth for a long time, but it’s not quite as simple as business owners just raising prices.
If we continued to do the same job, and the cost of living remained the same, most people wouldn’t think much of it. The problem still comes back to the business owners – they expect you to do more for the same pay, including firing someone and expecting you to also do that second job on top of your regular work for the same paycheck. Then when people demand a raise the business owner justifies raising their costs under the umbrella of “people just don’t want to work any more” when the reality is that what changed is the huge increase in how much that business owner is taking home themselves while delegating their own job to underlings.
You’re thinking about this from an individualistic perspective, but the problem is systemic. As long as somebody has to do thejobb that means somebody is getting fucked. If majority of jobs aren’t paying enough then most people are being screwed.
And yes it is literally as simple as business owners choosing to raise prices while keeping wages down.
Bold of this article to think the fundamentals of the economy will survive the coming climate apocalypse. Where the hell can I invest my money in growth when everything is either burning or flooding. Coffins?!?
Yeah, the future looks pretty bleak for young people. I’m in my 30’s and my retirement plan is fighting for survival or, preferably, dying.
The good news is death is great for the environment.
Don’t worry, you will die of starvation long before your die of fire and flood.
Can you do me next? How do I die?
Anal fissures.
Ok, me next. What’s gonna do me in?
The world’s most intractable case of dandruff.
DRS GME to stop global financial fraud
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that’s the neat part; humanity has done this so many times that we keep getting better at letting it get really, really, REALLY bad before people take action and we’re very far away from enough of us taking action to accomplish anything.
These comments read like /r/collapse
No worries. I’m poor now but I’m going to be a billionaire next week anyway.
Capitalism works!
so… like the rest of us have already found out - they can never retire unless they choose to do so in poverty.
Which one of us is going to be the first to commercialise the suicide booth?
Y’all need any beta testers?
Do you guys want to agree to do some mass suicide cult thing instead of retirement?
Let’s suicide the billionaires first and we’ll go from there
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Thanks Biden
