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[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The hell of it is, some people would still be happy to buy his apples. Look, I ain't got time or health insurance to be fucking around climbing an apple tree, here's some cash, apples pls. But that's not good enough for the investors, who want guaranteed 5% growth every quarter, so now we've got to pour kerosene on the extra apples and force people to go hungry.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've read The Vines of Wrath.

[–] funkless_eck 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's The Grapes of Being A Bit Miffed actually

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Much better than the sequel, The Apricots of Annoyance.

The porn Adaptation, Plums of Pleasure, is a banger though, pun intended.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: A stable company may appear to be growing by ~3% a year if you don't account for inflation.

I guess that's a silver lining because then investors don't see a stable company as stagnating.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you just discovered nominal value.

Are you really trying to put forth the incredibly naive proposition that the stock market is not aware of inflation?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I... guess so?