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felixwhynot @lemmy.world

11mo ago

inflation

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13611200

You've got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast!

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You've got to do more than just forego that expensive avocado toast!

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But if suggest rich people should be slightly less rich, they go into a frothing rage
- frothing rage? foaming at the mouth?
  
  It's like frothing but with a lisp

The price of cars is going up so what you should do is take the car you have and turn it into cash. Yeah, fucking great idea.
- And if you're in the US you can use our amazing public transportation to get around!
  
  Yeah! It can literally get me from... wait. There's no bus service at all in my county. Cool.
  Good thing we don't have all those buses clogging up our roads around here. More cars!
- Actually, now would be the perfect time to hold on to your car, since the Federal Reserve is going to drop interest rates soon and therefore increase inflation. And then just before they increase rates again, you can sell your car and then buy another one. When they cars get cheaper again. You can use our broken system to your advantage, but it does take work. As an example, I purchased a home in early 2022 and have only been living here for two years and already have $30,000 worth of equity in this house due to inflation. You are basically shorting the USD by buying a house because a FIXED rate mortgage cant change and cause your payment to go nuts.
  
  Those calculating the fixed rate are accounting for increased inflation. Trying to beat them at their own game is highly dependant on luck.

they must not be doing so well if they resort to ragebait
- They should sell their cars then.
  
  and pet their dogs

To be fair, I'd rather put my dog down than put it through chemo.
Humans can understand the agony is for a reason. Your pet can't. Don't keep your pets alive for yourself.
Also, is it really so shitty for a publication to provide tips on cutting costs when the economy is in the shitter? Im sure most news sites are barely hanging on by a thread, so it's not like they're benefiting from the economy being fucked.
- fyi, chemo for pets is much milder than for humans
  
  This. The primary goal of chemotherapy in pets is to minimize symptoms to improve their quality of life. It’s nowhere near the high dosage that humans undergo in order to completely eradicate their cancer.
  My cat is technically on chemotherapy. She gets a pill 3 times a week and a blood test every 3 months to check that it isn’t causing issues with her bone marrow.
  So far, no symptoms. Without it, she’d probably have died a year and a half ago. When I used to hear about a pet getting chemo, I had a mental image of a really sick pet, but it’s pretty much the opposite.
- Yes, it is, and you’re a huge bootlicker for trying to side with fucking Bloomberg, of all sources.
  
  Instead of calling them a bootlicker you could try to explain why you feel they are wrong.
  
  Chemo is awful to go through. If my pet got cancer I rather make it quick for them rather than prolong the agony.
  
  OK, buddy
  
  You should be in jail for your love of animal abuse.

Is Bloomberg spinning off an onion competitor?

I mean, Bloomberg and The Economist are two of the most old rich white man places you can get your news.
Do NOT eat the rich, they are bad for your health 🤣
- Would it be ethical to make them into dog food?
  
  Slow cooked rich. Still tastes bad, but has some protein.

I'd sell myself on the streets before I'd let my dog suffer like that.

Chilling

Bread? Typical bread in America is not normal bread. It's too chemical.
- Not sure what you mean by "typical bread," but the US is lousy with bakeries that make fresh bread. Even corporate owned supermarkets have them inside, and they bake fresh bread and things daily.
  Nobody is forcing you to buy Wonderbread.
  
  Often the flour that they're using is bromated flour so you don't get away from it even when fresh baked.
  Bromated flower is banned in Canada, the UK, the EU, Brazil and China..... But not the U.S.
  So yes the bread you get in the United States is specially chemically because of this.
- lol you can get plenty of good bread in the US. try going to asia where its basically a luxury item and way too sweet
  
  It's probably still made with bromated flour though...
- Bro where do you buy your bread? We have good bakeries here.

Or maybe switch to a currency where the inflation rate is not controlled by a few very high-up people that extract the wealth from the poor and middle class and move it upward towards themselves such as Monero. Monero's inflation rate is 0.85% and will continue falling closer and closer to zero as time goes on until a balance point is reached where an equal number of coins are lost through negligence as are created.

Also, stop voting Democrat and Republican.

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