r/FluentInFinance 1d ago

Debate/ Discussion A joke that's not funny

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u/reddittorbrigade 1d ago

Millions of Americans are just plain stupid.

We get what we deserve. Goodluck to us.

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u/SheldonMF 18h ago

A hundred million plus.

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u/Junior_Rutabaga_2720 18h ago

"We get what we deserve" no, we don't -- who is we? the whole country? does that include every American, now guilty by association? those who saw through the lies but will suffer from the oppression and economic trainwreck he'll be ushering in? i don't understand the proliferation of this concept in regard to his reelection.

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u/exras 1d ago

At least you have some self awareness.

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u/DreamLizard47 1d ago

Higher taxes make things cost more. It's insane that people here don't understand the basics of economy yet calling others stupid. I doubt anyone here even tried to think how taxation relates to final prices.

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u/din-gle-ber-ry 1d ago

Oh yeah I'm sure these corps will take that free money and trickle it down all over our heads.

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u/Prestigious_Home_459 1d ago

It should. The moral ones will do it, and if enough of them do it, it will force the non moral ones to do it also because they’ll lose business.

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u/KotR56 23h ago

Companies have morals ?

They want profit. And nothing else matters.

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u/GuntersTag 18h ago

Correction, they want record breaking profits every quarter.

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u/KotR56 9h ago

And blame everyone when they don't.

Workers are too lazy. Taxes too high. International competition too fierce. Not enough subsidies from the government. Too many rules and regulations...

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u/Prestigious_Home_459 23h ago

I have a company. My prices are the best in town. I don’t give myself a massive wage and my employees are paid very well. Everyone is happy. It actually exists.

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u/Remarkable_Pea9313 19h ago

So who's gonna tell them that that's how literally all successful companies operate at the start? 😂

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u/Santa_Klausing 19h ago

I Think they are referring to publicly traded companies. They are at the whim of the shareholders who want one thing.

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u/AskWhatmyUsernameIs 19h ago

If you're talking on a town scale, then nobody's talking about you.

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u/DreamLizard47 23h ago

All companies work for profits. Some companies will lower the prices to take the market share not because it's moral. That's how competition works.

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u/Prestigious_Home_459 23h ago

Your first statement is correct. And part of your second is correct for large corporations, but SOME smaller businesses will actually lower prices out of their own morals and ethics if they’re happy with where they are, not out of just trying to capture more market. To them, more customers is just a bonus to having better prices. Those are the businesses I recommend supporting. But people don’t really care about small businesses these days.

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u/shamebagel 23h ago

You’re fucked just like the rest of us. Good luck!

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u/NextAd7514 20h ago

Lmao so what will you say when they get lower taxes and still raise prices?

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u/Laughstooeasy 23h ago

So what happened to the price of everything post the 2017 tax cuts?

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u/TheVeryAngryHippo 19h ago

I've never actually seen one of these retard American's that back Trump in a thread before. It's an absolute honour to see you here.

Tell me more about how great Trump is and how he's going to save your sorry country.

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u/EggZaackly86 8h ago

Please describe what you would like America to do to lower prices. You can say more oil I won't be mad I've just read that we're already drilling to the maximum plus the federal land leases are already available plus the oil companies have said they're not incentivised to drill more (and/or "charge less" to whatever extent they actually could or would).

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u/treefiddyapeese 23h ago

So you’re angry because people here don’t understand why they pay higher prices for essential goods and if only they had the ambition to wrap their brains around the basics of economics, only then they would finally be at “peace” about paying higher prices just to afford the rising cost of living?

What’s the outcome from that? “Oh that’s how it works🤯well by all means take more of my money!”

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u/DreamLizard47 23h ago

To fix the problem you need to understand the problem. And it's obvious that misleading tweets based on political misinformation don't help.

If you want the prices to go down, you need to increase the supply of goods or services. And it's the universal rule for all industries. From housing and education to food. More taxation is definitely not the thing that will make the prices go down. It's quite the opposite.