After a certain point even this hits uncanny valley - I find the above a bit too forceful in the nonsense and overall too on the nose that it loses its playful quality. I’m saying that after comparing the above to something like the first two lines of Jabberwocky:
Twas bryllyg, and þe slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in þe wabe:
All mimsy were þe borogoves;
And þe mome raths outgrabe.
Inflation is bad for lenders (i.e. people keeping deposits in USD). People who work get paid based on their real value which means their pay rises if inflation rises. Of course it maybe difficult to get a raise for your current job but switching jobs will get you a raise that catches up to inflation.
Note that there has been a shift in bargaining power since 1980 that is closing. That gap is not the result of inflation because inflation alone doesn't give employers bargaining power. If anything it increases bargaining power of employees vs the old job because the new job always pays more in nominal terms.
It's also incredibly bad for pensioners, and often there's a lag between cost of living increasing and wages increasing that can be quite painful until things equalize, which sometime never happen.
I think pensioners would be covered as “lenders”. I interpreted lenders to mean those who have savings or are the beneficiaries of savings, such as pensioners, in addition to the obvious meaning of entities that hold fixed-rate debt as an asset.
I don't understand if we can say this inflation isn't just the surge of people who didn't spend a lot on travel/eating out/etc. now splurging on all the things + constraints on goods like cars due to the pandemic causing supply chain issues. It seems to me to me a relatively temporary, same as how the April 2020 market dip didn't really mean anything come April 2021.
Yes, I don't really get why this often gets dropped. I would assume inflation goes down next year if the supply chains get better again.
A lot of the inflation I saw in the pandemic was perishable products where the supply was cut in some way or another. As long as people that want it badly can afford more they'll pay more for it. This is inflation, but it's not clear whether the money supply or the supply chains are the reason. The money supply was high in the preceding years as well, not leading to such high inflation.
The USA was a fine place to live, many people happily gainfully employed, many investment accounts booking gains, labor and capital coexisting in harmony, when inflation was double what it is now.
Exactly. The 'God' discussed here seems to imply ethics which the creator of all things would not be subject to. Why would the creator of all things have an issue with killing folks via weather, since all humans die?
> The point is to show that either one of two things is true: Either the bible is wrong or God does not exist.
Since the Bible says God exists, that's really “one of one things is true: the Bible is wrong”. But, since the Bible contradicts itself, you don’t need to go so far out of your way to prove that it is wrong.
You are applying your own understanding and rules of benevolence to an Almighty creator you cannot even begin to understand. Let me spin it to you this way, if humans do evil then should an Almighty and Benevolent God ignore such evil (become unjust) or prevent such things from happenning? (Take away free will). The very first chapters of the Bible tell you bad things are a consequence of free will applied in an evil way (sin). Directly or inderctly all these things you consider "bad" are a consequence of sin. Even bad things that happen to innocent people happen because such evil, like a disease was introduced into the world by humans.
> You are applying your own understanding and rules of benevolence to an Almighty creator you cannot even begin to understand.
Is there anything a God entity could do that would cause you to label it not benevolent? If there isn't, then it appears that the word has sorta lost all practical meaning.
I had to google the word 'mollycoddling' and now feel the urge to use this word in conversation. Perhaps popularizing this fun term will help to de-virtue-ize this phenomenon!
