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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 1 year ago

protip anyone who tells you that high prices are the result of "price gouging" and whose strategy for reducing in inflation is "urging" businesses to "lower costs," which they confound with "lowering prices," is either retarded or thinks you are retarded https://t.co/FBvCzCJ3do

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 1 year ago
Replying to @eigenrobot

people left and right have an endless appetite for this shit ofc what's astonishing to me is how many people are lapping this up who _should know better_ this isn't even sophisticated nonsense https://t.co/K1OfVPaTp9

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 1 year ago
Replying to @eigenrobot

i wonder if maybe the collapse of the prestige of economists in the wake of the GFC resulted in a generation of americans growing up in the ensuing years without learning how markets work in a very basic way

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eigenrobot@eigenrobot• about 1 year ago
Replying to @eigenrobot

sure dudes why not https://t.co/HQHIVKKqRZ

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