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Companies have been unable to raise prices much because of the economic recovery has been fragile. Perhaps related to a lack of disposable income and consumer
by allochthon 13y ago
Companies have been unable to raise prices much because of the economic recovery has been fragile.
Perhaps related to a lack of disposable income and consumer confidence?
The concentration of wealth is starting to become genuinely worrisome from a societal perspective. There must be some sort of tipping point where real life crosses into dystopia, but I don't know quite what it would look like and what the longterm implications would be. The US political process is already buckling under the unseemly influence of contributions from a small number of donors. At what point are you awoken from your sleep and then realize that things really are going to be bad? What does "bad" look like, beyond what we're already seeing, such as long-time residents being priced out of San Francisco?