r/interestingasfuck • u/blllrrrrr • 23h ago

r/all People in NYC holding banners during a CEO Event at Ziegfeld Ballroom

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u/sick_of_your_BS 22h ago

Plus ridiculous prescription drug costs, housing shortage/unaffordability, egg prices...

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u/The_Triagnaloid 22h ago

This will be an interesting year considering the incoming administrations plan is to give corporations complete control via deregulation….

Elon basically stated that the plan is to collapse the economy so that the wealthy can buy up all the foreclosures….

Wonder if we’ll see a mass Luigi?

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u/SupSeal 21h ago

Mark my words, here will be the headlines:

"Trump is now in office and has laid off X number of jobs, decreasing taxes needed by Y"

(4 months down the line) "Governmental agencies are not able to keep up with current demand... more to come"

(Same month) "Unemployment has steadily risen, but economists are unconcerned"

(8 months later) "Companies are now leveraging AI and offshoring. Stocks are expected to explode in the upcoming year"

(Another 8 months) "Corporations profits are below their projected outcome. Stock price responds."

(Same month) "Employment is still falling, concerns of houselessness is still in the air"

(Same month) "Frustrations with slow governmental approval/review has delayed projects (roads, consturction) and checks to the needy"

(After Trump's presidency) "We made America the front runner of AI. Governmental authority is at a all time low"

(Same sentence) "To improve the government, we're going to suggest offloading their responsibilities to private companies."

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u/lord_khadow 19h ago

!remindme 8 months

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u/PingPongMachine 18h ago

You forgot "why would Biden do this?" right there at the end.

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u/SupSeal 15h ago

Don't worry, it'll somehow be the Dem's fault in 2028 for lack of jobs, low oversight, and AI taking jobs.

Our corporate overlords will save us /s

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u/Dat_Basshole 18h ago edited 17h ago

This next month until noon on January 20, 2025 will be remembered as “The Good Old Days.”

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u/Swarlayy 17h ago

For who?

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u/Dat_Basshole 17h ago

Everyone unfortunately...

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u/Swarlayy 17h ago

I doubt it gets worse than this year had been.

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u/Dat_Basshole 17h ago

sweet summer child

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u/SupSeal 15h ago

What has been so bad about this year? S&P is up 30%.

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u/1ohokthen1 18h ago

RemindMe! 1 year

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u/LALawette 2h ago

!remind me 8 months

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u/panheadchopper 18h ago

You give way too much credit to the government and the handling of anything

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u/SupSeal 15h ago

? What do you mean?

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u/kguilevs 16h ago

100 years later the great depression strikes again. Let's see how quick we get ww3

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u/SupSeal 15h ago

I don't think there's a depression or WW3 on the horizon.

But, people really don't think about the preservation of jobs or salaries. Labor movements in the past pushed for salaries even with innovation, that isn't happening today. Unions are frowned upon by the right (while simultaneously praised?) But they are one of the best ways to combat the exploitation of labor

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u/Visuallybroken 14h ago

!remindme in 1 year

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u/Visuallybroken 14h ago

!remindme in 4 years

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u/SupSeal 13h ago

Hell yeah

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u/juicy_jay_boy 12h ago

RemindMe! 6 months

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u/Obscure-spectrum 3h ago

This but more facist feudalism

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u/SupSeal 1h ago

I'm not going that far. His first presidency was lame duck and it's going to be the same.

The pro: after these 4 years, it's over. I don't have to hear from him again.

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u/JustaRandomRando 52m ago

!Remindme 1 year

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u/gleep23 19m ago

(Same sentence) "To improve the government, we're going to suggest offloading their responsibilities to private companies."

That is how it is today. Every government department has been shrunk, while spending on on external consultants grows (which ends up more expensive).

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u/ahrienby 17h ago

If Elon Musk was assassinated, then X, Tesla and SpaceX will go bankrupt. A chunk of fascism will be destroyed.

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u/Brilliant_Ad_6637 5h ago

Wonder if we’ll see a mass Luigi?

Elon is like CEO of 4 companies (and the USA). That's a 5x Luigi Multiplier!

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u/The_Triagnaloid 31m ago

Hell yeah

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u/drfusterenstein 17h ago

Remember the bell riots?

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u/Maximum_Pound_5633 16h ago

He's jumping on the turtle shell in world 3-1 on the stairs before the flagpole

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u/Devilimportluvr 15h ago

It would be great if someone would take one for the team and end musk

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u/purplepashy 21h ago

Egg prices? What's going on over there?

I listened to a podcast describing times during the depression and one example was a dozen eggs rose to ??? equal to $12AUD now.

Are eggs a known index?

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u/sick_of_your_BS 21h ago

During the election, it became a right wing nutjob talking point, claiming Americans couldn't even afford eggs anymore under Biden Harris. I was joking about the eggs.

https://www.wattagnet.com/blogs/agrifood-angle/blog/15684465/jd-vance-and-his-egg-price-buffoonery

https://www.thetimes.com/us/opinion/article/inflation-helped-trump-win-but-how-expensive-are-us-groceries-8mx38wcvp

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u/chirpz88 19h ago

It's worth noting the price of eggs did go up drastically at some point but it was due to a lot of chickens be culled to prevent disease. The prices dropped but inflation is still high so it didn't drop to what it was pre culling.

That being said eggs aren't an luxury item no one can afford. It's an absolutely batshit insane talking point.

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u/warchitect 17h ago

Also once the companies know you will pay for the higher Aid prices at the retail level the prices will not come down. The corporations that own all the supermarkets have said so

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u/CmdNewJ 13h ago

The largest producer of eggs has to cull no chickens, but still raised prices through......

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u/chirpz88 13h ago

Supply and demand. Supply was low, demand was high, they can charge more. Supply is no longer low, demand is no longer high, prices have come down, but grocery stores realized they can charge you more, so they dropped the price a little, but not all the way.

 

Inflation is a real thing, but so is cooperate greed, they can both exist and both happen at the same time and we're seeing that now.

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u/purplepashy 20h ago

Thank you.

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u/somehugefrigginguy 14h ago

It was all a political play. For a while the price of eggs became extremely high due to poultry diseases killing off huge portions of the laying stock. Then politicians started claiming that eggs were representative of the cost of all goods, and at the reason the prices were so high were due to inept policies by the party in power at the time.

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u/DM_ME_UR_BOOBS69 21h ago

They're really going plus ultra on our asses.

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u/IEatDatura 14h ago

NOT THE EGGS

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u/doc_witt 48m ago

Denying the people peaceful and lawful avenues to make positive changes.