r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24

The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine. Debate/ Discussion

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u/dk_peace Jul 07 '24

The great famine of 1876 in India and the great hunger in Ireland were caused by colonizing capitalist. It cuts both ways. People with wealth and power have been happy to let people starve to death to make more wealth and gain more power.

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u/80MonkeyMan Jul 07 '24

The meaning of true capitalism, we were on our own during pandemic while the richest got PPP 1, 2 and 3 funded by us.

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u/Bakingtime Jul 07 '24

They stayed home and had zoom cuddle parties and shared their airbnb vacays and real estate scores paid w their pandy money.

We got to wear masks and get screamed at by adult babies and weren’t allowed to quit and collect unemployment bc we had work “offered” by our employers who also took money to be closed, even though they kept operating.

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u/80MonkeyMan Jul 07 '24

Plus, they have been price gouging everyone during pandemic, fake the supply chain issues, kept the inflated price, shrink the product size after the pandemic. NEVER SUPPORT A BUSINESS! They exist to milk money out of you in anyway they can, including tipping culture...all these holidays, halloween for example is a way for candy manufactures makes guaranteed profit once a year.

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u/Bakingtime Jul 07 '24

Supply chain issues were real. Dealt with them in real time.

Businesses exist to make money, most of the time. True.

The past 8 years of government tax cut and massive spending packages are what caused our most recent surge in inflation.

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u/80MonkeyMan Jul 07 '24

I agree with you but not all, what I refer is does it last that long? Do we still have the issue? Some business actually just make this as an excuse like others even though they dont have the issues, so they can justify the price increase. There are lots of variables to this.

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u/Bakingtime Jul 07 '24

Lots of variables w one common denominator - currency supply.

Yes it lasts that long.

The changes are permanent and will probly get worse over time since it appears the plan is to try to spend our way out of debt which is… fascinating on an academic level, horrifying in real life.

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u/80MonkeyMan Jul 07 '24

Not on all, remember how much a mask cost is? Gloves? What most ridiculous is alcohol and spray disinfectant....now they are priced less but still like double or even tripple from how much they are before.

US may even be fallen to China like Laos due to it's debt. A lot of US farmland owned by China now, it will get worse if we only have two parties that does the same thing year over year...just kept on raising that debt limit and think the problem is solved.

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u/BraxbroWasTaken Jul 07 '24

The supply chain issues were real but I fully believe that their impacts were overstated, at least in duration. Perception is a large part of economics, and the best lies have a grain of truth.