The entire point of raising interest rates is to reduce the creation of new jobs and with that comes the creation of new businesses. The idea is that we're all supposed to lose our jobs and be unable to find new jobs and be forced to take much lower paying jobs after blowing through all our savings and because of that we're going to spend so little money inflation just *has* to come down.

It's a pointless and cruel way to control inflation and it's not going to work because our current inflation is caused by monopolies price gouging. But for some damn fool reason every single American is absolutely convinced they're not going to be the one to lose their job or take a pay cut and so nobody really opposes it.

It's like the old saying, recession is one year neighbor loses their job and a depression is when you lose your job. We're a nation of psychopaths. Or at least every man for himself. Which is a terrible way to live

So they can suck down profits. And it's going to fuck your community and your property values. Voters are finding out fast that when you gut public schools the parents leave and take their money with them. Unintended consequences.

It's like those idiots that defunded their government and suddenly their town was full of bears because they didn't have any money to pay for wildlife control. Libertarian Paradise sounds great until you're actually living it

because they needed muscle to deal with violent factory owners. It worked, but you can imagine what a devil's bargain that was.

This is a run of the mill sentence reduction for good behavior. It was fully expected. She'd have gotten the same treatment no matter what, it's completely normal.

This is the "Velma Season 2" of clickbait. Something to get your blood boiling so you're get angry and click and comment and engage with all these "fun" advertisements!

Learn to spot these things. Find some good articles and/or videos on media literacy if you haven't already. You're being made into a fool.

Set impossible standards, fire anyone that doesn't meet them, pretend you care about safety and blame the workers when the shit hits the fan.

Wells Fargo did the same thing and got nailed to the wall for it. They set impossible sales targets and cut back on monitoring the employees and then when the employees cheated to keep their jobs (it was 2008, everyone was pretty desperate) they said "oh, we follow all the rules, it's those dastardly employees!".

We didn't buy it when Wells Fargo pulled it and we're not buying it now.

This is why you need Unions. Unions call management on this bullshit all the time. Boeing has a union, but it's too weak to stand up to management after decades of Ergonomics.

3 super hero movies a year seems crazy and on top of 2 shows? I don't follow them (obviously) but what were they like before?

Also they must be a lot cheaper than I realized if they can pump them out like that.

The game is kind of a disaster. Little surprise to see you guys behind high five Rush get taken out. Sales looked extremely good. But I guess good enough is never good enough.

And bottom line we're going to keep having layoffs across the entire economy until interest rates are cut because that's the point of raising interest rates. It's Clearly not helping inflation. Multiple studies show inflation is caused by price gouging from monopolies. But the guy that runs the Federal reserve wants 3.5 million layoffs. He said as much under oath.

What gets me is the number of people who think it doesn't affect them. Absolutely everybody thinks they're not going to be the one that gets laid off.

Russian? Iranian? Doesn't really matter you're not American. We do not give a flying fuck about foreign policy. There was a concerted effort from Arab American voters to show up for the primary to try and get Joe Biden's attention but the fact is it's not like those voters aren't painfully aware that if Donald Trump is reelected it doesn't matter if they're native born or not they're getting deported. Where? Do you really think Trump cares where he deports them to?

so those voters are going to show up and vote for Joe Biden because they are well organized and highly politically aware and the rest of Americans couldn't care less what's going on in Gaza. Americans do not vote based on foreign policy. And if there's another 9/11 you can damn well bet that Joe Biden will win reelection in the landslide the same way Bush Jr did.

It's all kind of fucked up and it would be nice if we would do more for people in the Middle East after all the shit we've done to them but then again the same is true for about every country we have meddled with.

People are calling them indulgences. Indulgences at least served a social function, these are actively destructive because they slow fixing climate change to a halt. Plastic industry did the exact same thing with recycling and it pisses me off that unless you are terminally dialed into the internet you have no idea.

cryptoland. It's how you launder money through the system. That along with rug pulls, pump/dump and ponzi schemes is really the only good use for crypto. The systems have been shown to be too volatile for exchanging value at very high dollar amoungs and too slow/inefficient to do it for lower amounts.

The reason 90% of the currency is "whales" is because they're manipulating the market. One of the major exchanges had the price of Bitcoin drop from $60k to $10k in a "flash crash" because of a single whale. And if you buy in it can be hard to find buyers to cash out...

modern communications plus critical thinking lets us break down those petty clans and outgroups. Everybody becomes a member of the ingroup.

That's the goal. That's what it means to move from a competitive to a cooperative society. Endless petty fighting only really helps the upper castes who use ingroup/outgroup differences to justify their lavish lifestyle and absolute power. Right wing politics in a nutshell. Obedience for it's own sake. Power for it's own sake.

Uber and Lyft aren't inexpensive anymore. I had to take one to an eye doctor appointment where I was going to get my eyes dilated recently and with an okay tip it was $20 each way for 40 bucks total. I mean yeah it's cheaper than getting in a wreck because I can't see. But it's still kind of pricey. I guess if I was out drinking with three or four friends and we split it it wouldn't be quite as bad but it still wouldn't be what I call cheap anymore. What we really need is a proper public transportation system

were written by the industry that makes car breathalyzers. Another good example is that corporations that own and leave empty huge numbers of single family homes are currently paying for scary stories about squatters because they want to be able to leave houses empty for decades in order to drive up rents and values on their portfolios. And of course there's all those stories about the "shoplifting epidemic" pushed by retailers that want you the taxpayer to pay for their security...

It's an old trick, and if media literacy and critical thinking were taught in schools it wouldn't work.

you can't think outside your ideology.

Humanity has for *millennia" prospered best when it cooperated. Competition has only kept us down. Wasting resources and destroying knowledge in wars. How many scientists did we sent off to die in wars for "competition"?

High achievers aren't held back by cooperation, they're enhanced by it. Ayn Rand was a laughingstock in her day for a reason, and outside of ideologically motivated circles remains so.

There is no such thing as capitalism. Not the one you idolize. The system always break down into neo-feudalism as wealth accumulates at the top. It's inevitable. The kind of competition you dream of is just that, a dream. You're a man now, it's time to put away childish toys you played with during your 4 to 14 boyhood.

slavery wouldn't be necessary. Yes, go back to stone age and you've got droughts and famine we don't have today... but we're seeing signs of those same problems creeping up because we're fighting among ourselves instead of working together.

Slavery is a byproduct of that. Every few decades a war wrecks everything and we've got to put it all back together. And we've got to do that while giving 50-70% of everything to 1% of the population (Kings, Emperors, CEOs, whatever you wanna call them this epoch).

Slavery went away not because of tech. Slaves are just as useful in factories as anywhere else and the Southern American states had plans to put them there after the won the civil war. Slavery went away because the more education and knowledge spreads the more we as a species break down petty tribalistic barriers are cooperate

The aforementioned Kings, Emperors and CEOs though are very much pushing against that. They don't compete, they're at the top and protected by their wealth and power. So they want us fighting among ourselves. They win sometimes too. Parts of America have brought back slavery via prison labor...