Win / KotakuInAction2
KotakuInAction2
Communities Topics Log In Sign Up
Sign In
Hot
All Posts
Settings
All
Profile
Saved
Upvoted
Hidden
Messages

Your Communities

General
AskWin
Funny
Technology
Animals
Sports
Gaming
DIY
Health
Positive
Privacy
News
Changelogs

More Communities

frenworld
OhTwitter
MillionDollarExtreme
NoNewNormal
Ladies
Conspiracies
GreatAwakening
IP2Always
GameDev
ParallelSociety
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Content Policy
DEFAULT COMMUNITIES • All General AskWin Funny Technology Animals Sports Gaming DIY Health Positive Privacy
KotakuInAction2 The Official Gamergate Forum
hot new rising top

Sign In or Create an Account

47
The S&P 500 is no longer able to keep up with inflation, so even if you invest in the stock market, you're still losing money to inflation (media.scored.co)
posted 105 days ago by RhodesianRidgeback 105 days ago by RhodesianRidgeback +47 / -0
34 comments share
34 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Comments (34)
sorted by:
▲ 41 ▼
– SarcasticRidley 41 points 104 days ago +41 / -0

Yeah but did you hear about how the Dow is over 50,000?

permalink save report block reply
▲ 20 ▼
– WeedleTLiar 20 points 104 days ago +20 / -0

IT'S OVER 50,000!!!

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 7 ▼
– RealWildRanter 7 points 104 days ago +7 / -0

Don't prosecute pedos or everything will crash!

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 7 ▼
– MassivePecorino 7 points 104 days ago +7 / -0

Yes, those are load bearing pedos.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 2 ▼
– ChippingToe 2 points 104 days ago +2 / -0

lmao even.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 37 ▼
– Niemo 37 points 104 days ago +37 / -0

Usury. Nobody can keep up with inflation ever because debt based monetary policy demands more than exists which necessitates further printing.

permalink save report block reply
▲ 6 ▼
– Arkana 6 points 104 days ago +6 / -0

Yep, the only people who actually get their money at full value are the people printing it and those directly connected to them. Everybody else has their money being shaved down year by year.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 11 ▼
– SparkMandrill83 11 points 104 days ago +11 / -0

Clipped, you might say

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 3 ▼
– deleted 3 points 104 days ago +3 / -0
▲ 5 ▼
– ApexVeritas 5 points 104 days ago +5 / -0

Also, Trump said he's devaluing the dollar intentionally, because he wants more people to trade in it. He must do this, because lots of nations are separating themselves from the dollar, which continues to weaken it, collapsing the ponzi scheme of the fiat petro dollar. The system is getting closer to collapse.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 7 ▼
– deleted 7 points 104 days ago +7 / -0
▲ 2 ▼
– ApexVeritas 2 points 103 days ago +2 / -0

There are definitely variances between presidents, but truly, they all have to keep deficit spending and money printing by the trillions, or the entire system collapses.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 20 ▼
– Stagecoach 20 points 104 days ago +20 / -0

This jpeg post is not representative of inflation. US inflation went up 60% over the past 20 years, while the S&P rose 434% in that same timeframe. You'd have to be an idiot to believe this post title.

permalink save report block reply
▲ 10 ▼
– ApparentlyImAHeretic 10 points 104 days ago +10 / -0

jpg posters get the rope

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 5 ▼
– biggusniggus 5 points 104 days ago +5 / -0

This is true, but you would have had to make the right stock picks for this. The majority of the companies that have been on the S&P no longer exist. You can always index fund it, but I'm not seeing the majority of index funds beat or match the S&P.

Plus, it's a shitty method of retirement. It always goes up, sure. It can take 6-13 years to catch up after a large wipe out, and timing can be a huge issue. People should lean more into bonds as they close in on retirement age, but even then there's a pretty big mix.

Not to mention, the mag 7 is pretty much being propped up by passive investment tools. When the market corrects, it's going to be people with 401ks that eat shit.

This casino is not rigged in your favor. If the destruction of money stopped, people could budget and save. Why is it that we had almost 200 years of no (some inflation/some deflation) inflation, and after we get a central bank we lean heavily into usury and inflating our way out of debt to the detriment of the majority of working people.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 11 ▼
– Stagecoach 11 points 104 days ago +11 / -0

Have you invested before? ETFs like SPY are literally designed to index the S&P 500, and they have shown a pretty good track record too. SPY went up 700% during the past 20 years. And it doesn't matter if the companies on the S&P change over time, because the ETF handles the stock picks for you.

Obviously you move your portfolio into lower risk options when you're close to retirement, but when you're young there's no reason not to invest. The growth of the stock values doesn't need to match or beat the S&P; hell, it doesn't even need to beat the inflation rate if they're paying dividends. And if you're using tax advantaged accounts like a Roth IRA or HSA, then even better. Not having to pay any taxes on your growth makes a pretty huge difference in the long run.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 3 ▼
– deleted 3 points 104 days ago +3 / -0
▲ 13 ▼
– TallestSkil 13 points 104 days ago +13 / -0

Well, hang on now. You’re comparing the M2 supply with a stock valuation. This… isn’t how things work. You have to compare the rate of change of that stock over time to the rate of change of inflation over time. Note that this image isn’t even correct because it’s using officially reported stats and not the real inflation rate.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 3 ▼
– SophiesBoyfriend 3 points 104 days ago +3 / -0

Some out-of-the-box(™️) thinkers believe M2 is the proper measure of inflation.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 4 ▼
– TallestSkil 4 points 104 days ago +4 / -0

The M2 doesn’t take into account the Eurodollar system, though. You know, the secret system created after WWII where European banks are allowed to print infinity US dollars out of thin air to use for transactions between their banks, and over which the US has no oversight.

Inflation is based on what level of interest jews want to charge us for renting their dollars. That’s what it boils down to. Every Federal Reserve Note in existence has more than its face value in debt in existence as a function of its creation. The debt can, by definition, never be repaid. The rate of interest changes the rate at which new dollars are printed to cover it in the short term, which then directly alters prices of actual goods.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 2 ▼
– deleted 2 points 104 days ago +2 / -0
▲ 1 ▼
– TallestSkil 1 point 104 days ago +1 / -0

Yes. But M2 doesn’t reflect that in full. And you can’t compare the currency supply to the S&P as though that means anything.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 2 ▼
– TheMafia 2 points 104 days ago +2 / -0

M2 is controlled by the federal reserve under rules set by congress. It's not a measure of anything.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 1 ▼
– SophiesBoyfriend 1 point 104 days ago +1 / -0

M2 is created by banks lending

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 1 ▼
– deleted 1 point 104 days ago +1 / -0
▲ 2 ▼
– deleted 2 points 104 days ago +2 / -0
▲ 4 ▼
– Stagecoach 4 points 104 days ago +4 / -0

Not sure why you're replying to me a second time, but you absolutely can grow your savings faster than it loses value. My portfolio made +50% returns just in 2025 alone, and weirdly enough, my monthly expenses are still pretty much the same lol.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 2 ▼
– deleted 2 points 103 days ago +2 / -0
▲ 9 ▼
– SophiesBoyfriend 9 points 104 days ago +9 / -0

The money that was printed will end up somewhere. We just have to guess where

permalink save report block reply
▲ 6 ▼
– LinnocenceDeLame 6 points 104 days ago +6 / -0

Jesus they're printing a shitton of money. Remember that this is just what they are admitting on printing. Also seee: total US debt (is it 39T yet?)

permalink save report block reply
▲ 5 ▼
– CaptainTrouble 5 points 104 days ago +5 / -0

I love a good inflation debate.

I too am in the corner where we believe inflation is simply the increase in money supply.

permalink save report block reply
▲ 4 ▼
– deleted 4 points 104 days ago +4 / -0
▲ 2 ▼
– ChippingToe 2 points 104 days ago +2 / -0

What other things do people believe it to be?

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 3 ▼
– CaptainTrouble 3 points 104 days ago +3 / -0

Some people believe inflation is the change in price of a basket of products/services over time.

Unfortunately, this measure of inflation fails to accounts for changes in price due to changes in the demand and supply of said products/services irrespective of the change in demand from the increase in the money supply.

What happens is that a company borrows money (increases the money supply and thus increases inflation) to increase their production of products/services. This increase in the supply reduces the price of products/services so inflation if measured by change in price of products/services appears to have not changed (or not changed by much) despite the money supply going up because production has also gone up; however, the value of the money has indeed gone down, it's just the price of the products have also gone down because the supply increased.

Measuring inflation as the change in price hides the real inflation of the money.

permalink parent save report block reply
▲ 2 ▼
– Knight_Of_Saint_John 2 points 104 days ago +2 / -0

Just wait till the War with Iran really kick off

The US dollar might be so inflated i could probably buy 2$ with one € next month

permalink save report block reply

Original 8chan Links to Gamer Gate:

.

The main GG discussion is on the videogames board: https://8chan.moe/v/

.

GamerGate archive is at https://8chan.moe/gamergatehq/

.

GamerGate Wiki:

https://ggwiki.deepfreeze.it/index.php/Main_Page

. . . . . .

. . . . . .

Rules:

.

ONE: Do not advocate for illegal violence or post other illegal activity. (Be aware of your local laws.)

.

TWO: Don't threaten, harass, or impersonate users. Also: don't be a psycho. New users will be held to a higher standard.

.

THREE: Do not post porn.

.

FOUR: NSFW/NSFL content must be flaired NSFW.

.

FIVE: No vote manipulation. Do not break communities.win's features.

.

SIX: No spam or reposts. Do not make more than 5 threads a day.

.

SEVEN: Do not post falsehoods and hoaxes that are obvious to an uncontroversial degree.

. . . . . .

. . . . . .

Moderation Logs:

.

(Two different versions, Scored has more features and is cleaner, but .win let's you see a few more details in certain instances.)

  • Scored
  • .win

Moderators

  • DomitiusOfMassilia
  • C
  • BandageBandolier
  • CarmenOfSandiego
  • The_Shadow_of_Intent
  • SocraticMethod1
  • Kienan
  • Smith1980
Message the Moderators

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy

2026.02.01 - pv4fp (status)

Copyright © 2026.

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy