• YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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    333 months ago

    I don’t give a shit if prices go down, I give a shit if I can afford food and a roof over my head… prices can go down, or wages can go up, whatever works.

    • @porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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      163 months ago

      Ah, but you see this excessive demand for things like “food” and “shelter” is why those things are unaffordable. I am very educated.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    323 months ago

    thinking of economists as cult priests for the god of capital helps to understand their pronouncements

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    there is no need for prices to go down, but for real wages to go up much faster than it has been.

    that said there are couple of things that deserves a price collapse, regardless of the economic ‘cost’ , that is housing, healthcare and education.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    133 months ago

    I’d point to the Great Depression too. They were destroying food because no one could afford to buy it instead of giving it out so prices could be controlled. A bunch of scumbags who should’ve jumped out their windows after the stocks plummeted but unfortunately it didn’t happen.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    133 months ago

    "Although lower prices may seem like a good thing,’’ Banco de España, the Spanish central bank, says on its website, “deflation can in fact be highly damaging to the economy.’’

    How so? Mainly because falling prices tend to discourage consumers from spending. Why buy now, after all, if you can purchase what you want — cars, furniture, appliances, vacations — at a lower price later?

    In Freedom USA, you are discouraged from saving money and constantly be in debt or else your Social FICO Credit Score prevents you from buying a home or car