Comment by churchill
2 years ago
In other words, they contract production and stimulate demand at the same time and then wonder why prices are rising. Humans are just... beautiful.
2 years ago
In other words, they contract production and stimulate demand at the same time and then wonder why prices are rising. Humans are just... beautiful.
I guess I'm one of these humans you'd consider "beautiful".
We're not trying to say companies are evil for raising prices when they had the opportunity. Or that government was stupid for trying to save lives by reducing contact between people.
Most non-sociopaths understood it was reasonable for society to attempt this reduction in contact in order to not overwhelm the health service. And given that, some of the companies and individuals who benefited (whatever the reason), should pay a bit more tax for a few years to help out those that lost out (whatever the reason).
1. So swedes are “unreasonable“ considering they took completely different approach? Only “reasonable” when you completely ignore second order effects like the ones we’re dealing with here. Also if it was so reasonable then why the hell do you need to invent and push this greedflation narrative now?
> And given that, some of the companies and individuals who benefited (whatever the reason), should pay a bit more tax for a few years to help out those that lost out (whatever the reason).
2. We already did this with rent amnesty and bunch of other things. The end result - record high disposable income in the lower brackets where people just blow it all on goods and $20 mcdonalds delivered to your lazyboy idiocracy style -> inflation