I hate that everything is going to get so expensive.
Some people don’t understand. They’re like "It’s only $1 or $2." and I just want to scream "PER ITEM! It is an extra $1 or $2 or $20 PER ITEM."
I can’t afford to pay an extra dollar or two on EVERYTHING. And even the things whose price doesn’t go up will suddenly be a sacrifice to make because that "$1 or $2" has to come from somewhere. And it turns out that somewhere is a product a consumer otherwise would have bought.
But now they’re not buying those products. Those companies are losing money on unsold merchandise (that now costs more to produce because the parts come from overseas), and as a result employees have to be laid off.
There’s a reason we went into the Great Depression era at a horrifying 8% and a few years later it was like 36%. The only thing that saved us was the war.
We don’t like to draw attention to it, but we walked out of World War II with a lot of money. There were less people, the uber-rich had war profiteered their way out of debt and back into the heights of rich, and the country’s treasury was fat. A lot of the country’s problems were fixed due to war.
So there’s proof that war is very profitable for business. So I can understand how an ignorant amoral person would think that starting a bunch of wars would net them a ton of easy cash. I can understand, but I feel they should be treated with strict punishments. They should not live the rest of their life well.
There are some absolutely reprehensible things that simply cannot be forgiven. And starting a war so as to "enhance profit margins" is unforgivable. ESPECIALLY since we had a thriving stock market that was pumping out wealth.
Being told "Hey, don’t do this, it will cause a war" but still tromping forward to be a global-sized asshole… You can fuck right off with that. You’re a criminal and you need to be punished for the common good.
Other rich people need to see that their shenanigans will not be allowed to continue. And maybe they’ll sit their children down and actually teach their children. "Don’t do [terrible thing for the environment, dangerous drug party, MLM scheme, prank videos, bad landlord behavior]. This is not the time to be a fool, and honestly, there’s never a time to be a fool. You ruin the money when you enrage the public. Stop being a dangerous weirdo in public. You’re too rich not to have a staff of people to keep you from making a fool of yourself. Spend your money wiser."
If you have access to Netflix content, watch "The Fall of the House of Usher." If you can handle the gore, it is a horror story after all.
Prospero "Perry" Usher is the kind of rich idiot that doesn’t mean to kill a warehouse full of partygoers, but when he’s so stupid and ignores all the good advice he receives, the result is a writhing mass of melting death.
He didn’t mean to kill all those people. And he definitely didn’t mean to kill himself. But that’s the result that happened because he had way too much money, privilege, and access to stuff that it would be better if he’d never heard about.
And the idea that his father Roderick made Frederick take Perry to that meeting.
Knowing that his youngest son is fickle and flighty. That he is badly educated–to the point that he viewed that meeting about company properties that are so toxically hazardous that they’re poisoning the neighbors as a chance to pick out a place for a drug and sex party. And I mention "drug and sex party" because it was a bunch of nearly naked people wearing masks and having a great time. So when they all got melted into bones and goo… Identifying the bodies must have been near impossible.
I look at influencer-culture out there, and I feel like I’m seeing a scary number of people who remind me of Perry Usher.
They don’t mean to bankrupt their followers and thus disrupt their own cashflows, but their advice has resulted in some bankruptcies.
"Sorry, brah, I didn’t know what ‘tariff’ meant. My bad. Please don’t unlike, unfollow, unsubscribe, unlove me. You’re an essential part of my job as a grifter and ghoul."
So yeah. Things are going to get more expensive. Times are going to get harder. And there will be more desperate grifters pulling real life and Internet schemes.
Protect the old people and children. Keep in mind that MLMs are scams that will drain your money. And now is not the time to waste your entire family’s savings on a wedding spectacle extravaganza.
For reals: That $4000 bouquet of flowers was not worth the money you paid. Bride tax is real and you got snookered.
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