How much cost a bread, a kg of flour/potatoes? Base on that.
What even is money at this point
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 30 minutes ago
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
pipi1234@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Money should be a store of value and medium of exchange.
The issue with our current monetary system is it’s controlled by states.
The only way out of this failed experiment is a money that cannot be controlled by anyone.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Found the shitcoin advocate
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Rugpull enjoyer.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 29 minutes ago
Which makes it less stable and reliable and shady transaction are more difficult to track fown.
LwL@lemmy.world 57 minutes ago
No, the problem is that having money leads to having more money and having more money also leads to having more power so every system just gets slowly worse for everyone except the rich
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
And yet whenever you try to bring this up you get folks from all sides of the political spectrum losing their shit.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Thank you. Every time someone says “The Economy™” as something that should drive policy instead of being an effect of it, I get a little twitch.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Why should I give a shit about their economy anyway?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
so many things are going on that seem to violate the bullshit i learned in economics school that i am having trouble processing this reality as real, even though i know it is. it’s unsettling
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Which school of economics did you learn?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
bullshit mostly. i was a micro guy not a macro guy.
Quexotic@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
I get this is just a shit post but this really gets at the unreality that has been manufactured for us. a lack of stability that makes everything just a little bit more unbelievable.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Big Mac used to be 3.19 back in 2012, now it’s 6.09 but I don’t make double of what I did back then
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Yeah but think of how cheap TVs that you don’t need are.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 minutes ago
But no matter how much ketchup I use, I can’t cover up the bitter taste of the TVs lcd panel.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
That spy on you and sell your data and then get so slow with updates after a few years you need a new one. And have advertisements baked in
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I shouldn’t need to sound like a 90 year old at my age.
“When I was a kid this was a dollar!!!”
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
They were saying that because it was weird to them. Inflation as we know it didn’t really start until Nixon.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 18 hours ago
I use this simple formula:
Fisrt count the number of years Trump is in office, then multiply that by 0.5. Now multiply that by the price you would normally guess the cost to be.
So if Trump is in office for 5 years, and you think something should cost $20 it turns out to be:
(5*0.5)(20)=50Making that thing that should only cost $20 actually cost $50
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
How does this formula account for the fact that I can’t do math? Bet you didn’t think of that.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
In this case everything costs 50 unless it costs 100! Ez pz
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Money isn’t real, and humanity will keep enslaving itself until we equally distribute the products of our labor.
Food and housing didn’t cost money until we decided it did.
We can decide to change things again.
Strider@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This is also why we could decide billionaires own nothing.
dingus@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It’s one banana, Michael! What could it possibly cost? $10???
Yes.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
theonion.com/u-s-economy-grinds-to-halt-as-nation…
Time to share this antiquated “news.”
mtpender@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Tariffs?
theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Minimal wage hasn’t been raised since 2009 in the US
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Well yeah, then we would have inflation! /s
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 18 hours ago
Also systematic monopolization of everything by like five companies. With no realistic possibility of price competition, prices will go up until people decide to stop buying things altogether
Aedis@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And the poverty line hasn’t been adjusted since the 60’s iirc. No president wants to be the one that tells everyone we have so much more poverty now!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
What’s worse is that the guy that was meant to be in horrid poverty in the christmas carol, earned more, adjusted for inflation, than bernie sander’s proposed 15 bucks an hour…
let alone the current minimum US wage.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
And it was only raised by like 15 cents or some shit
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
And also the kidnapping of farm workers
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 16 hours ago
I think I have sensory issues with both money and time.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Oprah at the grocery store. That’s all of us, now.
toynbee@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Man, I see you everywhere on lemmy.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 4 minutes ago
Big name stores will all move to personalized surveillance pricing. They will track your phone when you go into a store. Cross reference the fingerprint of your device to a database full of data on you that they’ve bought from a databroker. And then use that to jack up the price on the e-price tag if they know you really need that product. Plus they even will change the price on their website when you double check the price.
youtube.com/shorts/PL1d0xiHRhg