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CNBC unironically argues that the "upside to inflation" is "higher wages" (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark 4 years ago by UnsubtleAardvark +103 / -0
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– Galean 50 points 4 years ago +50 / -0

What sort of moronic argument is this?

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– TentElephant 55 points 4 years ago +55 / -0

The chocolate ration has been increased from 30 grams to 20 grams. Cheer!

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– Chillin_in_PNW 37 points 4 years ago +37 / -0

Bet if you worded it as 'increased from 1 ounce to 20 grams" they would agree with you.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

Alternatively '1/2 of a unit to 1/3 of a unit' since that's actually happened because people can't do fractions and simply focus on the number increasing.

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– jenniferq8 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0

I believe that was what sunk A&W's attempt to compete with Mickey D's.

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– bangbus 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Ah yes, the inferior one-third pound burger. I wonder if some company could dominate the world with a 1/5th pounder.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

Wonder how gullible the stoner market is for a 1/420 burger and hash browns 🤔

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– Ahaus667 34 points 4 years ago +34 / -0

The same kind that led to the fight for 15. People think more is better, so making more is always better. Then inflation makes more less, so people once again demand more. People in America can’t tell you basic arithmetic of income value versus income total, but they can tell you how racist white people are.

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– Oppressinator 22 points 4 years ago +22 / -0

"Why are the wealthiest .001% getting so much more wealth? Idk, anyways, lets make everyone pay out 15 per hour, from mom and pop shops to walmart wait why did the shop close down and not walmart"

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– JustHereForTheSalmon 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

There used to be a somewhat satirical argument, when people talked about raising the minimum wage, to suggesting "why stop there?" and raising the minimum wage to $30, $50, even $100.

That argument is no good anymore because they'd probably say yeah, it's a great idea, why not $100 / hr?

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– Oppressinator 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

The kind that comes to give marching orders to the peons.

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– JiggsawCalrissian 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

The kind that can only be made by someone who believes math is racist

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– Grumman 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

It's a "Let them eat cake" moronic argument. Dollars are just the yardstick by which we measure wealth and not wealth itself. Inflation is the symptom of the real problem: that supply has fallen relative to demand.

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– rabdargab 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

The supply has artificially fallen relative to demand

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– deleted 48 points 4 years ago +48 / -0
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– A2BS 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

Yay! I keep my lifestyle while my savings slowly deteriorate! Woo!

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– The_Gay_Deceiver 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Is there even any real benefit to "incentivizing spending" by stealing people's savings via inflation or was that just a psyop to make people more accepting of the Fed?

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– A2BS 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

It’s good in small doses, as in a saving economy industry suffers a bit from having the capital to make products but not the demand to back it up. However we’re way past that point and I’m slightly worried about hyperinflation. Not VERY, but it’s a possibility.

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– Kaarous 44 points 4 years ago +44 / -0

There are only two types of Marxists. Those stupid enough to not know better, and those evil enough to not care.

So they're either stupid, or else they know they're lying.

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– LesboPregnancyScare 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

the grunts are kinda stupid or hopeful that they will be elevated. Anyone above the grunt level is evil and know exactly what they are doing.

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– PepesCovfefe 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

This same statement is even more relevant now in relation to vaccine pushers.

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– deleted 33 points 4 years ago +33 / -0
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– DefinitelyNotIGN 25 points 4 years ago +25 / -0

How to lie with statistics 101: Pick a blatant and obvious outlier, and base your entire thesis off of it.

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– ailurus 25 points 4 years ago +25 / -0

President Joe Biden has rejected this view. “A lot of companies have done extremely well in this crisis, and good for them,” he said in a speech in May.

Misleading at best. Yes, big companies did extremely well, because the govt shut down everyone but them. But, about 40% of small businesses were forced to close for good due to the lockdowns

“The simple fact is, though, corporate profits are the highest they’ve been in decades,” the President added. “Workers’ pay is at the lowest it’s been in 70 years.

Well, duh? You close everyone except the Walmarts, Targets, Amazons, etc. and then wonder why corporate profits are skyrocketing? Even Pikachu can't express the surprise Biden must be feeling now.

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– current_horror 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0

The exact same people would be decrying the exact same corporate profits if the president were a republican.

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– GoofTroop186 24 points 4 years ago +24 / -0

And still, some economists fear a too-rapid increase in wages could prompt companies to raise prices and create the very phenomenon of inflation, causing more harm than good. President Joe Biden has rejected this view.

Whew

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– deleted 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0
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– current_horror 19 points 4 years ago +19 / -0

They have to figure out a way to get everyone out of their homes.

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– deleted 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0
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– catvideos3 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Extermination squads

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– IfThatIsWhatYouThink 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

All they need is a disaster, either natural or manufactured. There's footage from Katrina of National Guard forcing people to abandon their homes and also confiscating firearms.

Forced to leave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwB0c0sftF0

Firearms Confiscation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf8trl69kzo

People talk like they won't do this, because they're too stupid to realize it's already happened.

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– PepesCovfefe 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Anyone vaccinated will die within two years once the cytotoxicity of the spike protein destroys every cell in their body.

So, the dilemma you speak of has already been solved.

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– Grumman 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

If exposure to a finite amount of a piece of COVID could do infinite damage, COVID would have a 100% mortality rate.

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– PepesCovfefe 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

I’m talking about exposure to the vaccine, not Covid.

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– Grumman 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

You're talking about exposure to the COVID spike protein. I can believe that it is toxic, but it's not so toxic that it would destroy every cell in your body, or else we'd already have seen it do that.

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– Assassin47 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

the government will make selling your house contingent for buying into the new BitDollar or whatever

What about people that don't have houses?

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– Steampunk_Moustache 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

So that's why the communist multimillionaires don't consider themselves rich...

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– PepesCovfefe 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

No they think they’re part of an elite clique because they are - they are children of multi-millionaires and will inherit those assets while benefiting in the meantime from the annual gifting of parents until death.

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– JiggsawCalrissian 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

There will be a sliver of time, a couple days a week, where you're money will go further. Followed immediately by a prolonged period of time where its almost worthless

Bernie Sanders "Das a good thing!"

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– PepesCovfefe 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Historically speaking, the opposite of this statement is actually the argument. Meaning, inflation generally is not sustainable without wage growth. And, in the current economic environment, companies are not inclined to pay more. So, if anything, one could argue that after a general reversal to the mean, we will not have any sort of hyper inflation because wages will continue to stagnate.

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– MocksFordComma 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

They (government) want to inflate their way out of debt.

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– deleted 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

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