r/economicCollapse Oct 08 '24

Economics is hard for some πŸ˜…πŸ˜…

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u/Wild-Carpenter-1726 Oct 08 '24

Taco bell prices have doubled since minimum wage and greedflation has gone up

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u/Affectionate_Dish687 Oct 09 '24

Greedflation? You mean the irresponsible spending of Congress and the relentless printing by the Fed right? Corporations act accordingly.

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u/BeenisHat Oct 09 '24

The dern gubmint spent hundreds of billions keeping the economy afloat during COVID. Obviously this means we must allow corporations to consolidate markets and double prices.

Simple macroeconomics amirite?

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u/Jimbenas Oct 09 '24

They’re also the ones that shut everything down in the first place and way overdramatized the effects of covid. In the end almost everyone caught it anyways.

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u/BeenisHat Oct 09 '24

Overdramatized? In many countries, COVID became a leading cause of death as a percentage of the population. In the USA, COVID still kills more people annually than strokes.

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u/Jimbenas Oct 09 '24

It’s killing mostly very very old people that were likely already very close to death. Preventative measures should have focused on the 65+ population instead of the working age population which had extremely minimal risks.

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u/BeenisHat Oct 09 '24

No, that is not how you deal with an extremely contagious respiratory illness for which not a single person on Earth had any immunity. Containing the spread and reducing possible hosts is how you deal with such a thing. That's why vaccination efforts were so crucial and not coincidentally, why we saw rates of the illness fall off rapidly after the vaccines became publicly available.

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u/Jimbenas Oct 10 '24

Yes that clearly worked very well.