I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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Originally posted by second:Quote:I swear you and your kind are stupid fuckers who deserve to be cheated by businessmen doing what is most profitable for themselves. Businesses are NOT run to benefit customers or employees. It is absolutely ridiculous that customers and employees keep misunderstanding this simple truth.
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You are too stupid to have this conversation with. I'm not going to have it with you again.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Get fucked, retard. I just flushed down a turd that was smarter than you.
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Quote:6ix, you do a great job of deluding yourself. Businesses make a massive effort to convince customers that the motivation of business is something higher and more admirable than profit. Check out the medical business in America which has convinced patients that paying the highest prices in the world means Americans get the best health in the world. By deluding people in that way the business makes more profit.
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Get fucked, retard. I just flushed down a turd that was smarter than you.
US healthcare spending is much higher than anywhere else in the world.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/charted-countries-most-expensiv
e-healthcare-spending/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you do a great job of deluding yourself. Businesses make a massive effort to convince customers that the motivation of business is something higher and more admirable than profit. Check out the medical business in America which has convinced patients that paying the highest prices in the world means Americans get the best health in the world. By deluding people in that way the business makes more profit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Get fucked, retard. I just flushed down a turd that was smarter than you.
US healthcare spending is much higher than anywhere else in the world.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/charted-countries-most-expensiv
e-healthcare-spending/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Me, dealing with Second:
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Quote:6ix, you will be overcharged for your diabetes healthcare because everybody in America is being overcharged compared to other countries.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you do a great job of deluding yourself. Businesses make a massive effort to convince customers that the motivation of business is something higher and more admirable than profit. Check out the medical business in America which has convinced patients that paying the highest prices in the world means Americans get the best health in the world. By deluding people in that way the business makes more profit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Get fucked, retard. I just flushed down a turd that was smarter than you.
US healthcare spending is much higher than anywhere else in the world.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/charted-countries-most-expensiv
e-healthcare-spending/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Me, dealing with Second:
Per-capita health expenditure in selected countries in 2021
United States $12,318
Germany $7,383
Sweden $6,262
Canada $5,905
United Kingdom $5,387
Italy $4,038
South Korea $3,914
Poland $2,568
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/charted-countries-most-expensiv
e-healthcare-spending/
If doctors in other countries charged what they do in the US, patients would be burning doctors' offices. But in the US? Americans are stupid enough to pay and too cowardly to riot. There is a role that government could play in America: place restraints on American doctors' greed.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you will be overcharged for your diabetes healthcare because everybody in America is being overcharged compared to other countries.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, you do a great job of deluding yourself. Businesses make a massive effort to convince customers that the motivation of business is something higher and more admirable than profit. Check out the medical business in America which has convinced patients that paying the highest prices in the world means Americans get the best health in the world. By deluding people in that way the business makes more profit.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Get fucked, retard. I just flushed down a turd that was smarter than you.
US healthcare spending is much higher than anywhere else in the world.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/02/charted-countries-most-expensiv
e-healthcare-spending/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Me, dealing with Second:
Yup.
And your solution to this is Government controlling prices, which is also somethign you say that government cannot do.
Hmmmmmm...
How has your brain not spontaneously combusted yet with all of those contradictory thought patterns ceaselessly rubbing back and forth and giving your gyri indian burns all day long?
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Quote:I guess you have not heard of Medicare? Health care spending, both per person and as a share of GDP, continues to be far higher in the United States than in other high-income countries. Yet the U.S. is the only country that doesn’t have universal health coverage, i.e. Medicare-For-All.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Yup.
And your solution to this is Government controlling prices, which is also somethign you say that government cannot do.
Hmmmmmm...
How has your brain not spontaneously combusted yet with all of those contradictory thought patterns ceaselessly rubbing back and forth and giving your gyri indian burns all day long?
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us
-health-care-global-perspective-2022
It is always a fight about what price doctors will be paid for Medicare patients between Democrats on one side and Doctors and Republicans on the other. I hope you are aware that American doctors always want Medicare patients to be more profitable than patients not covered by Medicare. And then there are the American health insurance companies always pressing for money to insure the expenses that Medicare does not cover because Republicans and insurance companies don't want those expenses covered since insurance is very profitable.
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We are NOT in business to provide inexpensive housing.
We are in business to take all your money:
Landlord Software Is Making Life Hell for Renters, Report Says
Property technology, or proptech, is allowing big landlords to buy homes at scale, raise rents, and evict tenants remotely.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3vek/landlord-software-is-making-lif
e-hell-for-renters-report-says
Exploitative rent-to-own programs have a long history in the U.S. In the 1950s and 60s, countless Black renters were victimized by “contract to deed” programs where they would pay a higher rent with a promise to have the deed turned over to them, only to have the contract canceled for minor violations.
Modern rent-to-own schemes are similar in that renters build no equity and in the majority of cases don’t end up owning a home. They have been supercharged by private equity and the tech sector. The report breaks down the success of various rent-to-own startups along with their funding.
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Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck Democrats.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/may/15/us-households-show-signs
-of-stress-as-new-delinque/
Good luck, wage slaves. I hope buying all that shit you didn't need was worth it, because now you're all fucked.
I'm looking forward to buying your used shit for pennies on the dollar what you paid when you bought it new.
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Will The U.S. Economy Pull Off a ‘Soft Landing’?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230519115003/https://www.nytimes.com/int
eractive/2023/05/18/opinion/jobs-inflation-economy.html
The problem of inertia
Whenever inflation becomes an issue, people begin invoking the specter of the 1970s. The standard story about what happened then goes like this: A combination of bad luck (wars and revolutions in the Middle East) and bad policy (printing too much money and ignoring the inflation warning signs) allowed inflation to become “entrenched” in the economy. And purging that entrenched inflation was extremely costly.
What do we mean by entrenched inflation? Some prices, like those of oil or soybeans (or international shipping) fluctuate constantly. Many prices and most wages, however, are revised only at intervals — for example, a typical employer gives its workers contracts that set their pay for the next year. And these price revisions aren’t coordinated. In any given month, some prices and wages will be reset, but most will have been set some time in the past.
What this means in times of sustained inflation is that many of the economy’s players are caught up in a game of leapfrog. Every time they reset prices, they’ll raise them substantially, even if demand for their products is weak. That’s partly to try to catch up with other players’ price increases since their last reset and partly to get ahead of future price hikes by their suppliers and competitors. So inflation becomes self-sustaining unless something breaks the cycle.
One way to break the cycle might be to impose price controls — simply order businesses to stop hiking — or, in a sufficiently cohesive society, to get all the major players to agree to stand down. Such direct approaches have sometimes worked. Price controls did help contain U.S. inflation during World War II. In 1985 Israel engineered a big fall in inflation at relatively low cost by getting major unions and companies to agree to a pact enforcing wage and price restraints.
But it’s hard to come up with other successful examples of imposed or negotiated price restraint. Richard Nixon’s 1971 price controls led to shortages and effectively fell apart.
Line chart showing how Nixon’s price freezes had little effect on unemployment but led to rapidly rising inflation
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Last year Viktor Orban of Hungary — yes, the darling of the American right — tried to suppress inflation with selective price controls; his effort also failed, and Hungary currently has the highest inflation rate in the European Union.
What if policymakers can’t legislate or negotiate inflation down? The standard answer — ugly, but time-tested — is to deliberately weaken the economy: use contractionary policies — tax hikes, spending cuts or, usually, higher interest rates — to suppress overall spending. Faced with weaker demand for their products, businesses will raise prices and wages more slowly; as they see other companies doing the same, their price hikes will become even smaller, and inflation will gradually ramp down.
The good news about this approach is that it definitely works. It is, in fact, how the inflation of the 1970s was brought under control. The bad news is that it can be immensely costly, because businesses squeezed by weaker demand may lay off many of their employees before inflation has come down to acceptable levels.
Exhibit A is the story of the 1980s. Inflation came down from around 10 percent at the beginning of the decade to around 4 percent when Bush the elder won his election. But along the way there was a huge bulge in unemployment, which didn’t get back down to its 1979 level until 1987. Here’s a graphic that illustrates the costs:
Line chart showing how inflation dropping in the 1980s resulted in increased unemployment
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
The shaded area shows the excess unemployment above the 1979 level. In the jargon, a “point-year” of unemployment is one percentage point of excess unemployment for one year; the disinflation
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GALLUP: Three in five Americans, 61%, say recent price increases have caused financial hardship for their household, marking a six-percentage-point increase from the last reading in November 2022 and the highest since 2021 when Gallup first tracked this measure.
A relatively steady 15% of U.S. adults say the hardship created by inflation is “severe” and affects their ability to maintain their current standard of living, while 46% say it is “moderate” but does not jeopardize their standard of living.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/505928/say-inflation-causing-financial-ha
rdship.aspx
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