GhostedIC

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[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

Took him long enough.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would like to say, California instituted a $20 fast food minimum wage which was estimated to cause an 8% increase in overall wages (they already trend high there) but a 1.5% increase in menu prices. To my mind this tracks as wages are kind of small (too small) against ingredients, building lease, etc.

Granted, increasing the wages of everybody in the agricultural supply chain would probably have a bigger effect, but overall I think businesses tend to mcfucking lie about the impact of wage increases on consumer prices.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not reddit, people can be sarcastic without the /s.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 week ago

More like Facebook worked overtime to tip the 2020 election towards Biden and Trump is still mad about it.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Well, FOIA requests revealed Facebook was extremely cooperative with both enacting government censorship requests, and keeping them secret, when those same censorship requests would have been utterly illegal if they were an official order, so...

Some deal like "You give us control over information and we leave your monopoly alone", even unspoken, seems to be the gist of it.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

4chan today is more moderated than Reddit in 2012.

[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Obama early in trump's turn: "Trump can't fix this broken economy, he doesn't have a magic wand!"

Obama on Trump's economic performance after his first term: "Yeah, it was pretty good because it was my economy!"

Hmmm... Which is it?

Then of course Biden or whoever was actually in charge in the white house printed ~9x the US dollars in circulation, and killed all the chickens (maybe it was necessary but it sure as hell wasn't something to blame Trump for, of all people). Now every issue is Trump's fault?

And sure, tariffs are actually Trump's first big economic move, and the immediate reaction is a stock panic. But we haven't truly seen the results yet. I wonder what the new cope will be if six months later Trump got most of his demands met, the tariffs are over, and things are looking up again? Are you going to say actually it was Biden's good economy? I'd bet my life savings the answer is yes.

 

I haven't! But it is tempting me because JA2 sure was cool...

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