that’s what it’s for. Didn’t learn that until quite recently.

Steam isn’t going to randomly remove your purchases

don’t jinx it!

I think you’re confusing beer brands? Modelo isn’t all that sweet in my experience, but I haven’t had it in a while

I would just spend it slowly here and there in small shops. A single wad of cash is probably only a few thousand $ or € worth at most. Just smear it out over a few years and yer good!

And that’s why I’m still unemployed!

Pouring one out for all the folks out there who have to get in a car to go to a bakery

They don’t claim that after the fact, it’s their terms of service to begin with. Just another reason to never buy anything on these services. Even paying for streaming is less of a scam since at least you aren’t being misled.

(I can feel my huge steam library giving my hypocritical ass mad side-eye right now)

I would argue those “lemonades” get you drunk faster because the stouts are basically half a meal each.

Unless you’re drinking imperial stouts, in which case it was nice knowing you

I’m sick and tired of these incel memes.

I appreciate your response but I think you are applying Economics 101 haha :P

Monetarism hasn’t held up historically and doesn’t even take employment, growth, savings, price stickiness or export/import into account. Besides, we are talking about government spending, not private sector.

More money in circulation means more taxes - the money gets taken back out. And taxes can always be increased when the economy gets a lil too hot (we are nowhere near that). The picture you are painting onoy holds up when we have full employment and all businesses are at capacity, which is not how things look in most economies right now. More money results in businesses getting more revenue, which they can invest and use to hire more workers. No inflation, just growth and more employment.

The fact that buying power has decreased over the last decade is true but not because of inflation. It’s because neoliberalism has allowed capital to claim all of economic growth for itself. Before neoliberalism, higher profits could be captured for workers by strong unions (broadly speaking)

The kind of inflation that decreases purchasing power is a price shock, which has caused most of the inflation in the last few years. This has indeed impacted the poor most, but this kind of inflation also has nothing to do with an expanding monetary supply.

I really recommend researching MMT or demand-side economics.

Rechten Inhalten und Meinungen sollte man in der Tat kein Verständnis geben. Sehr wichtig aber ist die Frage, was den Rechtspopulismus stark macht. Dazu gehört auch, dass man versteht, warum Leute so frustriert sind - Rechtspopulismus greift bei gesunden glücklichen Menschen nicht so gut.

Die FAZ betreibt außerdem gerne auch selbst Rechtspopulismus (schön bürgerlich verpackt natürlich) und darf zu so was mMn die Fresse halten.

Not always, and no.

New money is created all the time, and most of it not even by government spending, but through businesses taking loans.

When governments spend too much in competitive markets, i.e. on resources that aren’t there yet, then yes it drives up prices. Just running a deficit does increase the money supply, which still only causes inflation in some cases.

The classic inflation from the economy working a little too well is not a flat tax, since both wages and prices are growing. Savings on the other hand (except stocks), lose their value. Classic inflation erodes the savings of the rich, and erodes the debts of the poor.

And even then, the central bank can always increase the cost of businesses lending to slow things down. That has other downsides, but the point is:

1. Government deficits don’t always lead to inflation
2. When they do, a bit of inflation is not a bad thing, since wages grow too

But yes, tax the rich. Can’t argue with that

governments with their own currencies don’t require taxes to have/spend money btw

dodging the draft is the only cool thing trump ever did. idc if it’s an insult to some other murderer tbh

Cool beans but this is an image and the link doesn’t let me access it

tankies.

Saw these guys live, was a hoot!

Yep livestock and beef specifically is insanely bad for the environment. People who don’t want to go vegetarian/vegan can still make a meaningful difference by cutting out beef.

Yes, water consumption is a shit reason to argue against data centers. Power consumption is the real big issue

Don’t modern consoles have browsers where u can do this?