• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    The low interest for years has made people far too willing to just pay it back over years. Credit, credit, credit. Who cares, you can afford it!

    Now the interest rates are up again, nobody has any fucking money to buy anything. The billionaires have stolen your wallet, and are now holding out the begging bowl for more so their precious lines can go up.

    Hopefully this will be the end of supersized SUVs everywhere.

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      1 year ago

      Now the interest rates are up again, nobody has any fucking money to buy anything.

      To be fair, this is the entire reason for raising interest rates.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, you’re not wrong.

        It’s just a bit of a kick in the bollocks when the wealth has to trickle down, but the poverty somehow has to trickle up. And neither are trickling very fast.

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          1 year ago

          No disagreement from me there. Frankly, we’re lucky it wasn’t bad enough to kick off a real depression. A worldwide depression right now would be a very, very different place. Idk how we’d begin to climb out without war, and wouldn’t ya know it there’s a few good global Cassus Belli floating around.

          It’s ugly though, for sure. Inshallah, the worst bits are over and we come out ahead. Sounds like you’re UK(?)/Aus, but I hope worker pay is rising there the way it is here in the US.