Both happened, because the dollar lost value, so they increaased the number of dollars for something. Pay inflation and retail inflation are effects of thje underlying problem.
I may be seeing double here... economics seems to be a shell game played by grifters; one gets a raise and then the goods industry raises their prices accordingly in addition to a % for the CEO and shareholders for their inconvenience for having to raise their prices Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor
Exactly Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor
And what does it say about a society that lets its people live in barely livable conditions?
Homelessness is so tragic in this state/country and never far from my mind because it's in my face everywhere I go. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer... it never ends. Had institutions had the proper humanity and funds required to serve the infirm perhaps they would have survived. Meanwhile those in the lower- middleclass are becoming the new homeless due to property barons, corporate greed, and inept public servants. No relief in sight.
I feel your frustration. Society is a mess and throwing money at it doesn't seem to help. Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY Intriguing post. My daughter and I have had conversations re: body composting and mandatory garbage composting recently. "A new law in California requires food waste to be composted: The goal is to reduce food waste in landfills by 75%." Feb 7, 2022 / NPR Hoping these modest actions will make for a brighter future for our progeny. Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor Composting is good, but many things cannot be composted. Plastics and some other organic materials can't be composted, but they can be depolymerized. A teo step process might work, but the more steps, the more it would cost. Eliminating cemetaries would be good, and that land could be used for something. Ihave never figured out why people want to save corpses. If they want a memorial, then they might try turning the corpse into a fossil, which doesn't take a terribly long time to get going. That's how I would prefer for my corpse to be handled, and afterwards, it could be set up as a statue.
Intriguing post. My daughter and I have had conversations re: body composting and mandatory garbage composting recently. "A new law in California requires food waste to be composted: The goal is to reduce food waste in landfills by 75%." Feb 7, 2022 / NPR Hoping these modest actions will make for a brighter future for our progeny. Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor
Originally Posted by hellsapoppin An easier way to reduce or end inflation is to close all overseas tax shelters. There are many articles on this subject online: https://www.google.com/search?q=endi...hrome&ie=UTF-8 Democrats Obama and Biden advocated closing them. Congressional Republicans refuse to do so. Thus the problem is of their making. Ending tax shelters would make taxes fairer, but it wouldn't do much about inflation. The Treasury could still play with bonds.
An easier way to reduce or end inflation is to close all overseas tax shelters. There are many articles on this subject online: https://www.google.com/search?q=endi...hrome&ie=UTF-8 Democrats Obama and Biden advocated closing them. Congressional Republicans refuse to do so. Thus the problem is of their making.
Since I finished writing this post, I have been thinking about it. I watch little television and avoid some other media, but I got an ideafor a TV commercial. Let me know what you think. Part One: This is what your bottled water does to areas from which the water is taken. Images trying to pump water for cattle from a dried up pond. With views of tanks and pumps in the background. Part Two: This is how your water is processed. A scene of filling operation with bottles being filled and capped, and a guy on the platform above the filler urinating into the holding tank.
So true. Here in California we could use the water since it would be "so well managed". re Sci-Fi: Asteroids - we still have SG-1, and Aliens - the benevolent "To Serve Man" authors Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor
And this in to muddy the waters: https://www.science.org/content/arti...global-warming Using an array of satellite observations, researchers have found that the climatic influence of global air pollution has dropped by up to 30% from 2000 levels. Although this is welcome news for public health—airborne fine particles, or aerosols, are believed to kill several million people per year—it is bad news for global warming. The cleaner air has effectively boosted the total warming from carbon dioxide emitted over the same time by anywhere from 15% to 50%, estimates Johannes Quaas, a climate scientist at Leipzig University and lead author of the study. And as air pollution continues to be curbed, he says, “There is a lot more of this to come.” Ta ! (short for tarradiddle), tailor
Even more important, is that writing allows one to consider one’s words carefully and to revise if the initial idea was not perfect, and it is easier to revise before the delivery than it is with spoken words. I´d like to add, that depending the nature of the complaint, the written form can be used as a proof. Thanks for this post Peter L.
I can't always abide, however, and it should be remembered the Goethe hid up in the highest room of his castle when the gates were besieged, leaving the footmen (servants) and other staff to deal with the invaders. Always appreciative, With love, your friend.
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Goethe said that too
I am very glad that you liked it. Writing it made me think about nihilism, something that I have seldom thought much bwfore, and I realized that nihilism is absurd. Expressing things in a positive way is something that I aim for. If it can't be put pleasantly, or without nastiness, then it might be better not to express it. I have that that works well in complaining about poor service, etc.
I'm sorry for all my mistakes before. I love you a lot Peter. -Nik
Yes, I think there is always hope. Hope is the thing with feathers. As they say -- it was done a while back some experiments where rats were in water -- well, anyway they lived about 25% longer if they could see a possible landing zone, even if it was taken away. The inhumanity of the experiments aside (although not for me eternally), the info from them is very important. . . and valuable I think. Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh says it simply; "hope for tomorrow allows us to bear a hardship today." and I'm always doing my best to simply encourage the three things. . . Self-faith (in others), trust in their good outcome, or hope, and then of course peace.... and health... I do my best always. In terms of my life interactions with others it's my primary thing to do this way, to above all help people have faith in themselves, and from there do what they may do. Or what they feel best. Swami Vivekananda and Shantideva both expressed this; i.e., the former said, "The greatest religion of all is to have faith in yourself," and the latter said, "it is the only duty of a Bodhisattva to encourage faith or increase faith," the latter is paraphrased, and the first one more or less the same. -- I am with you completely on the Goddess, thing, to me it's absolutely clear and simple that the elemental form of the universe is Female, i.e., the Life-giving principle, Life-sustaining principle of Love, and whatever else we may call God is more connected with Goddess than with male forms. But it's only a minor thing for instance, but Goddess and Earth, Earth is a mother and so forth. . . but like as you said, that's an aside! As for the rest, Yeah, I guess I can simply say as before that it's very nice, the thing you said. I mean how yo use words and you do not say any negativity but you still express what you feel. I appreciate and like that a lot. I could write much more but I guess just wanted to say this for now.
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