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Oops my bad I will stop buying food until the price goes down.

Browbeating a single mother of three to stop buying her crying kid a candy bar at the store because her pricey impulse buy is overheating the economy meanwhile my landlord who owns 1,500 properties buys a third private jet.

They're not wrong though. Inflation is our fault. If we would instead choose to use force to take the value of our labor rather than allow the ruling class to steal it from us, we wouldn't be suffering under inflation.

Weird because bourgeois economists have admitted, all the way up to the IMF and World Bank, that they don't understand and can't model for inflation (cause its caused by capitalist greed and their salary depends on not understanding). Marxist economists don't have that problem.

Just stop paying rent and live in the street, dummy.

Wait, what do you mean that's criminalized and will make you a constant target of the police?

Real hourly earnings for workers in the tenth percentile of wage distribution went up more than 8 percent in the past three and a half years, the economists David Autor, Arindrajit Dube, and Annie McGrew found.

Amazing how neither the article nor the linked study say how much that increase was in absolute dollars. Wouldn’t want people to know the baseline.

Three years ago, the pandemic gnarled supply chains around the world, leading to shortages of many consumer goods. At the same time, the American government transferred roughly $1.8 trillion to households in the form of generous unemployment-insurance benefits, an amped-up child tax credit, stimulus checks, and delayed or forgiven student-loan payments. Less supply, more demand—it was a recipe for higher costs.

Never mind the trillions the Fed spent to float the repo market or the numerous analyses showing corporate profits to be the main cause of inflation, no it’s you dirty consumers for not being frugal enough (also please don’t be frugal it hurts our stock investments).

you know the contradictions are hitting all time highs when the capitalist media starts putting out "participating in capitalism is ruining capitalism". god bless.

Always love when these op-eds encourage behaviors that they will shriek about the results of one month down the line. Annie probably already has her "Millennials are Killing the Luxury Goods Market!" written and ready to go

In a sane world I could simply look at this and go "Oh, this is an elaborate ploy by a depressed writer to make someone kill them." But now everybody in that millieu is on like seven layers of contranianism and copium so it's hard to know what to make of this.

"Hmm, my OpEd writer career would be set if I could just provoke leftist podcasters to read them while recording.

I know what to do!"

My next impulse purchase?

My bad. I really should just hold out with buying food until they lower the prices.

How is it my fault when I'm not buying stuff?

The entire market literally only wants to sell to billionaires now, how is it my fault us poors literally got forgotten about as a consumer base? So much so that we are not needed even as consumers anymore?

The poors spending extravagantly on food and rent. But TVs instead they're cheap!

Message received. I will steal expensive things instead

once a proud bastion of highbrow libshit, The Atlantic has removedd into midbrow ragebait libshit.

Why is it capitalists can't make up their mind? Are we supposed to buy their shit or not?

if you're angry at the price of bread why do you keep eating

Pol Pot, we need you

the subtitle is a bit i've done countless times

"Sure, Joe Biden might have blown up NordStream - here's why this is Germany's fault"