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- shapesalad0
A story we’ve all been told 1000+ times before:
Someone is sad.
They buy something.
They are happy.
- It’s called an advert.shapesalad
- Pretty harmful narrative to be drilled into us.shapesalad
- DopamineNBQ00
- You can get the same squirt by making or finding something. Things often improve our livesscarabin
- Money does create happiness. Anyone who says otherwise is full of shit.monospaced
- nb1
Interest thread about how and why a ton of “seasonal” items are going to get hella cheap right away, and how price slashing is coming across the board.
https://twitter.com/mikebeckhams…
What happens if this happens to automobiles?
- Pre-orders for the 2023 Corvette are told delivery is 3-5 years out.imbecile
- That’s a rare model and an outlier. Also they are setting expectations based on today’s availability of chipsnb
- There are rumors of lots full of basic Family SUV crossovers just waiting for a few microchips to be installed. But maybe demand is too high.nb
- No one can accurately predict exactly how quickly the chips will become availablenb
- Cars are so back ordered it's going to take ages to catch up. I was told 6months to a year, if I want electric more like 2 years.formed
- That's demand, not just supply chain. I want a very unique car and I am still on the bottom of the list (can't even 'order' it until I move to the next list)formed
- not an outlier. an example of what is happening. parts shortages are changing configurations and delivery dates. the desire for a new car has not gone down.imbecile
- and being directly in the industry, they are not rumors. some manufacturers can't get windshields made for pre-ordered cars.imbecile
- comparing vehicles, which are a part of industry and american culture and much more important, to plastic christmas tchotchkes is willfully stupid.imbecile
- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯imbecile
- K but you guys know that the salesman at the car dealership couldn’t possibly know how quickly chips manufacturers will ramp up production rightnb
- The car companies are guessingnb
- PhanLo2
- street art, no?imbecile
- Brandalism?
https://twitter.com/…
But yep, kindo street art :)PhanLo
- nb2
massive shortage on baby formula.
Hmmm thought shortages was why we don’t want communism?
Thanks, capitalism!
- bants https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- more babies, that’ll sort it.MrT
- hydro742
- Not the healthiest, but sooooo good on baked or grilled fishnb
- Just use a plastic cutting board. Work smarter.palimpsest
- utopian3
The free market? There’s no such thing!
There's no such thing as the free market - it's a delusion of left and right, argues Bryn Phillips.
- nb2
My friend is works in finance but not for banks, just for companies. His job is sort of like accounting except he looks forward instead of backward.
He got a new boss last year who gave him the runaround for a year and wouldn’t promote him. His job is easy for him but there’s nowhere to grow.
He’s 36, no kids. So he should quit, right? After all, he should need to be moving up in the world at his age and situation.
So he starts looking for a new job. Finds one. Doesn’t quit his old job, he just does the bare minimum to not get fired. New job is his focus.
Now he collects two large paychecks and works about 8 hrs per day.
The American Dream, realized!
- Salarrue3
- This is like calling drinking fountains communism.palimpsest
- utopian1
The world's 10 richest men have made so much money during the pandemic that a one-time 99% tax on their gains could pay for all COVID-19 vaccine production and more.
"Billionaires have had a terrific pandemic. Central banks pumped trillions of dollars into financial markets to save the economy, yet much of that has ended up lining the pockets of billionaires riding a stock market boom," Oxfam International's executive director, Gabriela Bucher, said in a press release announcing the organisation's new report, "Inequality Kills."
Highlighting the vast wealth disparity that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic, Oxfam noted that the wealth of the world's ten richest men more than doubled to $1.5 trillion from $700 billion between March 2020 and November 2021. That's at a rate of $15,000 a second or $1.3 billion a day, the charity said.
- So what? It's just outrage click-bait. No solutions, no understanding of economics or wealth or taxation for that matter.Morning_star
- There’s something to it. If you make billions a year at some point the idea of coughing it up for the greater good makes sense.monospaced
- Especially when they’re making it while everyone else is cashing $500 government checks and losing jobs and family members.monospaced
- Companies and individuals are different. Bezos isn't Amazon, Musk isn't The Boring Company, SpaceX or Tesla etc. Making these people cultural enemies is...Morning_star
- ...retarded. Calling for economic equity is also fucking stupid. It shows a monumental lack of understanding in the quest for 'clicks'. It wouldn't be so bad..Morning_star
- ...if this came from an ignorant blue haired culture warrior but it comes from the Busines Insider. Truth and honesty should...Morning_star
- ...prevail, but they don't. The cost of that will be far greater than rinsing billionaires for a few more bucks.Morning_star
- Sure, it's click-bait, but at the same time represents a real problem. The gov't needs to create a balanced system. As it is now, it's a pathetic joke.formed
- Further, they aren't talking about Tesla, etc., they are talking about the net worth of the wealthiest. THAT is the point.formed
- PhanLo0
- simple solution. stop illegal immigration. simple supply and demand economicshotroddy
- nevermind. i didn't read it fully. this is probably happening.hotroddy
- hotroddy.compalimpsest
- LOLpango
- legally speaking, prisoners are slaves.cannonball1978
- PhanLo1
- Yes she's the best
https://www.qbn.com/…grafician - The squad aren’t gonna like thisGnash
- The squad probably got a little starte pack to keep them quiet. Nancy needs her ice creams.PhanLo
- Yes she's the best