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[–] [email protected] 83 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wages do need to come down.

For a very small number of people who seem to have all of the wages.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the mean should go down but the median should go up. Those outliers at the top are a problem.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps we should eliminate the outliers so we can get a more accurate understanding of the normal distribution.

[–] jballs 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was the most professional version of a call to guillotines that I've ever heard.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

;) Gotta package it right

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of my favorite things on this earth is capitalists admitting that if wages ever rise such that workers can afford a decent life, the price of a decent life will just rise to exclude them in the same breath they use to talk about how capitalism lifts people out of poverty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Artificial scarcity in a post-scarcity society is wonderful isn't it :')..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Nice to see so much crossover interest from other instances on this one. Love the federation!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Well... they're partially correct. If we cut "wages" at the top, then prices will go down because they're no longer being pulled up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Specifically, the economy is a Ponzi Scheme!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Pyramid scheme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember the Fed saying anything like that a year & a half ago.

[–] gnurd 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Powell has been saying this for a long time. He doesn't seem to like that people are making more money.

Here's just one of a plethora of examples you can find if you'd just Google it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why do I get the feeling he's not talking about the rich here?

[–] gnurd 4 points 9 months ago

Because of course he's not. To me it seems he's definitely more concerned about the pockets of the ruling class. Just my opinion of course.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Rather than it being corporate greed driving everything (which has been reported on from many angles), it's actually people making too much money that is the problem per Powell.

[–] gnurd 5 points 9 months ago

Exactly. This is the guy saying unemployment needs to be higher. Like wtf, you actually want more people out of work.

Higher wages is not what is driving inflation, it's pure greed. Proven over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I think they mean that no one in the government ever said that no one wants to work, it was just tight fisted business owners with no brains.

[–] gnurd 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When people say the Fed in this context (the tweet) they generally mean the Federal Reserve which is headed by Jerome Powell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] gnurd 2 points 9 months ago

Pretty ambiguous and they responded to my comment but not to say that was the case.