Global Depression 2022 - Time to do the Breadline Boogaloo!

Who is going to get hit the hardest?

  • North America

  • South America

  • Asia

  • Europe

  • Australia

  • Africa

  • The Middle East

  • Everyone's fucked

  • Nothing will happen


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I fucking love how in an article writing about fundraising for starving kids in the congo, the Guardian tacked on their own fundraiser, if you werent paying attention you might think the donations were for the congo but no, it's for the real oppressed group, woke journoshits
I love how they still try to put antithetical savages over actual American citizens. We have starving here, we are a debased nation here - there is and has been no need to help Wakandans shit up the world.
 
what kind of minecrafting would be needed to fix everything.

The mid century German kind, but more successfully. I'm not memeing.

What the Germans really did, what they were really trying to do, is avoid the future we've found ourselves in. To be clear, the kind of minecrafting we need isn't the disturbed misportrayal of them, or some carbon copy of what they were or did, but of the same nature and driving spirit brought up to date with everything that's happened since.
 
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i love all this predicting people do here, the doomer posting really proves the quote "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

like the silver posting, if anyone invested a year ago they'd still be fucked. it didn't even catch up to the S&P 500.
I dont invest in silver and gold, i keep it as a store of value as a hedge against major economic catastrophe. besides, if it skyrockets in price why would i sell? that probably would mean the USD is worthless.
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It wasn't businessmen merchant, many nobles were that.

The problem became when (((Happy Merchants))) took over.

You know, the bankers with the big noses.
 
Melt down, cast into objet d'art. I like elephants, and God likes elephants.
You know, I've always liked you. Others have said that SARIMA is sexier and more modern, but a lot of the time, I think you really get it and it's beautiful.

I think I'll go with armadillos, though God demonstrably does not love them, as nobody will think much of a few armadillo statues around here. People are gonna ask questions if I dig a lake, though.

As for the market staying irrational longer than I can stay solvent- never, ever, ever put all your eggs in one basket. I don't care how well PM "performs", it's just something you can stash that rats can't eat. If I get some free time somewhere, I can even make sparklies out of it, how nice. It's like how despite the jokes about the lottery being a tax on people who can't do math, I buy a ticket every once in a great while- not because I'll win, I'm not even sure I WANT to win, but fantasizing about it is fun while doing something particularly tedious.
 
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All this talk of precious metals, coupled with the autism coin chilling in my display case, made me finally crack and buy a few more silver coins so I can clink them together and pretend to be a pirate. I might give them to my niece and nephew at some point.
 
This Inflation Defies the Old Models

Last April, economists thought inflation would be around 2.5% right now. Instead, it’s over 6%. Even by the forgiving standards of economic forecasting, that’s a miss of epic proportions.

Explanations come in two schools. The demand school blames President Biden and the Federal Reserve for administering too much stimulus.
The supply school blames pandemic-related bottlenecks and supply chains.

In fact, it’s becoming clear that neither demand or supply by itself is to blame. Rather, this inflation was made possible only by strong demand interacting with restricted supply. The U.S. hasn’t seen anything like this combination except, perhaps, in the aftermath of World War II. Then, Mr. Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers has noted, pent up demand coincided with war-induced shortages. This makes the solution elusive: fixing supply is largely beyond the means of the White House and Fed, but treating the problem as one of only demand could damage the economy.
 
Why is it, in a time where no one has any money and shops are running out of stuff, and the stuff that is available is expensive, WHY are so many people quitting their jobs and bragging about it on social media?

Actually, ARE people quitting their jobs? No one I know irl has. I mainly see the jobless talking about it on reddit.

Why are bots quitting their imaginary jobs in these trying times? Don't they know they won't get unemployment unless they get fired? Will reddit bots be doing smash-and-grab for Christmas?

Who benefits from having a destitute population?
I work in manufacturing and we have always had this problem. You hire a new batch of people and maybe 60% actually make it to 90 days. My best guess is idiots who couldn’t hold a stable job before the Woo Flu. The difference is now they are bragging about it on social media plus the explosion of the gig economy coupled with gibs allows them to eke out a living.
 
It's so much easier to just show up for work on time and do a mediocre job, yet people chose instead to risk their lives stealing hot copper wires, or robbing pedestrians, or burgling around.

Now they have easier options than crime, and they think they're geniuses.
 
It's so much easier to just show up for work on time and do a mediocre job, yet people chose instead to risk their lives stealing hot copper wires, or robbing pedestrians, or burgling around.

Now they have easier options than crime, and they think they're geniuses.
They still do the crime though. Now they do it on app's for easier documentation. Not the brain trust of society, not qualified to do much else besides labor but will demand a higher quality of living off your back.
 
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