They don’t claim that after the fact, it’s their terms of service to begin with. Just another reason to never buy anything on these services. Even paying for streaming is less of a scam since at least you aren’t being misled.

(I can feel my huge steam library giving my hypocritical ass mad side-eye right now)

I’m sick and tired of these incel memes.

I appreciate your response but I think you are applying Economics 101 haha :P

Monetarism hasn’t held up historically and doesn’t even take employment, growth, savings, price stickiness or export/import into account. Besides, we are talking about government spending, not private sector.

More money in circulation means more taxes - the money gets taken back out. And taxes can always be increased when the economy gets a lil too hot (we are nowhere near that). The picture you are painting onoy holds up when we have full employment and all businesses are at capacity, which is not how things look in most economies right now. More money results in businesses getting more revenue, which they can invest and use to hire more workers. No inflation, just growth and more employment.

The fact that buying power has decreased over the last decade is true but not because of inflation. It’s because neoliberalism has allowed capital to claim all of economic growth for itself. Before neoliberalism, higher profits could be captured for workers by strong unions (broadly speaking)

The kind of inflation that decreases purchasing power is a price shock, which has caused most of the inflation in the last few years. This has indeed impacted the poor most, but this kind of inflation also has nothing to do with an expanding monetary supply.

I really recommend researching MMT or demand-side economics.

Not always, and no.

New money is created all the time, and most of it not even by government spending, but through businesses taking loans.

When governments spend too much in competitive markets, i.e. on resources that aren’t there yet, then yes it drives up prices. Just running a deficit does increase the money supply, which still only causes inflation in some cases.

The classic inflation from the economy working a little too well is not a flat tax, since both wages and prices are growing. Savings on the other hand (except stocks), lose their value. Classic inflation erodes the savings of the rich, and erodes the debts of the poor.

And even then, the central bank can always increase the cost of businesses lending to slow things down. That has other downsides, but the point is:

1. Government deficits don’t always lead to inflation
2. When they do, a bit of inflation is not a bad thing, since wages grow too

But yes, tax the rich. Can’t argue with that

governments with their own currencies don’t require taxes to have/spend money btw

tankies.

Saw these guys live, was a hoot!

Don’t modern consoles have browsers where u can do this?

Those bird designs really do appeal

Most 13 year olds have been on porn sites. Lemmy should be fine hehe

Yeah leftists and environmentalists famously hate railways 🤨

I really appreciate the effort and the energy but uhh wtf buddy

those last two panels really rounded off that joke like mustard on an apple pie

work smarter not harder

Fair enough that’s my bad, although I still think you overestimate how much voting alone can accomplish

I just like a working, customizable PC that I’m in control of. KDE Plasma Desktop is everything Windows should have been, and it’s actually for me to control, it’s free, and it doesn’t push BS on me. Fedora btw

Damn just a few months after I finally gave up waiting and switched to iodéOS. If migrating between android OSs was as easy as desktop, I might switch back, but I can’t be arsed now. Glad it’s back tho!

No that’s not what I said or meant. Your statement implies that you categorically trust politicians more than people like you.

You are the one seeing things in a binary way here - you can vote and also still work on improving things between elections.

Slang for cloaca. It’s what all the kids are saying. The fish kids.