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> Even if you're well off, if you were making a million/yr before now you're making 200k/yr. I don't quite understand, are you saying that inflation is *checks

> Even if you're well off, if you were making a million/yr before now you're making 200k/yr. I don't quite understand, are you saying that inflation is *checks notes* 500% in Canada right now? The article says something like 6.8%?

revolvingocelot 4y ago
It's the same logic that allows him to suggest that the "Freedom Convoy" was-- fake, or something. Disinfo? On my HN? It's more likely than you think!
- effingwewt 4y ago
  no the freedom convoy scare was fake, he said- and it was. They were labeled terrorists and had donation funds seized. Re 200k/yr down from 1mil was a bit hyperboic, but he literally referenced buying power. Ie what one million got you before has essentially been cut to 1/5. Again hyperbolic but not wrong. Funny that a comment that didn't even properly read the one its refencing is itself disinformation.
  - techdragon 4y ago
    There’s also going to be a non linear response. The sort of mid-tier luxury that one million can buy will be at the end of a chain of value added services and basic input goods, all of which are being squeezed by inflation costs. It’s also easier for luxury goods to raise cost faster than inflation as a hedge against future inflation
  - revolvingocelot 4y ago
    Suuuuure. I didn't "properly read it". >>>>the "Freedom Convoy" scare which was, as far as I could tell talking to friends who live/work in Ottawa downtown, a fabrication by the media - which would explain why it was covered to such great degree. I don't want to turn this post into a conspiracy theory type thing, just calling it as I see it. A nothingburger that was spun for some purpose unknown to me Fabricated how? Spun how? A "nothingburger"? One can tell this guy didn't actually know anybody from Ottawa. Trumpy dogwhistles without context, without an explanation of what exactly is being called a fabrication or spin or "nothingburger"... It was covered so extensively because it was a right-wing protest whose goal was to overthrow the sitting government and somehow couldn't receive any attention from the cops (despite functionally shutting down the capital's downtown). You're disinformation, too -- your role is to make the handwaving and prevaricating sound more reasonable. Reading anything [0] about the convoy's political fallout should make non-extremists see that -- unless CSIS is part of the nothingburger. Maybe they are!!!1 [0] https://www.lavalnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2022-advocated-civil-war-csis-intel-report-claims/ https://www.lavalnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2022-advocated-civil...
    - effingwewt 4y ago
      This comment and your previous one are both bullshit ad-hominem. Bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot. Length!=salient points.
      - revolvingocelot 4y ago
        But you can't explain what aspects of my claims are "bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot", and you suggest I don't have salient points -- but you can't describe them, and you haven't advanced any. Perhaps CSIS is wrong and you are right, because you say so?
        effingwewt 4y ago
        I expained in my very first post in this thread. You, meanwhile, habe done nothing but troll, throw baseless accusations, and then proceeded to tell me my job. You are a troll and not worth wasting more time on.

revolvingocelot 4y ago

It's the same logic that allows him to suggest that the "Freedom Convoy" was-- fake, or something. Disinfo? On my HN? It's more likely than you think!

effingwewt 4y ago
no the freedom convoy scare was fake, he said- and it was. They were labeled terrorists and had donation funds seized. Re 200k/yr down from 1mil was a bit hyperboic, but he literally referenced buying power. Ie what one million got you before has essentially been cut to 1/5. Again hyperbolic but not wrong. Funny that a comment that didn't even properly read the one its refencing is itself disinformation.
- techdragon 4y ago
  There’s also going to be a non linear response. The sort of mid-tier luxury that one million can buy will be at the end of a chain of value added services and basic input goods, all of which are being squeezed by inflation costs. It’s also easier for luxury goods to raise cost faster than inflation as a hedge against future inflation
- revolvingocelot 4y ago
  Suuuuure. I didn't "properly read it". >>>>the "Freedom Convoy" scare which was, as far as I could tell talking to friends who live/work in Ottawa downtown, a fabrication by the media - which would explain why it was covered to such great degree. I don't want to turn this post into a conspiracy theory type thing, just calling it as I see it. A nothingburger that was spun for some purpose unknown to me Fabricated how? Spun how? A "nothingburger"? One can tell this guy didn't actually know anybody from Ottawa. Trumpy dogwhistles without context, without an explanation of what exactly is being called a fabrication or spin or "nothingburger"... It was covered so extensively because it was a right-wing protest whose goal was to overthrow the sitting government and somehow couldn't receive any attention from the cops (despite functionally shutting down the capital's downtown). You're disinformation, too -- your role is to make the handwaving and prevaricating sound more reasonable. Reading anything [0] about the convoy's political fallout should make non-extremists see that -- unless CSIS is part of the nothingburger. Maybe they are!!!1 [0] https://www.lavalnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2022-advocated-civil-war-csis-intel-report-claims/ https://www.lavalnews.ca/freedom-convoy-2022-advocated-civil...
  - effingwewt 4y ago
    This comment and your previous one are both bullshit ad-hominem. Bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot. Length!=salient points.
    - revolvingocelot 4y ago
      But you can't explain what aspects of my claims are "bad faith, bullshit, and disinformation to boot", and you suggest I don't have salient points -- but you can't describe them, and you haven't advanced any. Perhaps CSIS is wrong and you are right, because you say so?
      - effingwewt 4y ago
        I expained in my very first post in this thread. You, meanwhile, habe done nothing but troll, throw baseless accusations, and then proceeded to tell me my job. You are a troll and not worth wasting more time on.