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Retail sales volumes fall 0.3% in February

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We can keep raising prices forever, right?

"Right?"

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we pay poor people less and we take all the poor people's money ... why aren't they spending more money?

Such a mystery

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Good, 90% of retail is plastic crap made with slave labour. The time a product spends on the shelves of a Canadian Tire is just an intermission between manufacturing and a landfill.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, it sounds like we could really help things by taxing Galen Weston (and other rich folks). Why don't we try that!

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

You can see the hissy fit right now about a modest capital gains tax. We're already seeing "...bbbbbbut the doctors!!" from our thought-leaders.

Fuck off, like you'd actually spend money on healthcare.

Imagine the collective freakout if we tried to raise taxes where they need to be! The rich would go full mask-off fascist if they were forced to pay their fair share.

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The sooner the economy burns down the faster the greedy capitalist pigs get their comeupance (fingers crossed). I would be happy even if humanity goes into disarray just to ensure the natural world is saved from human plundering.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

They won't. Our respective governments will shovel cash at the rich in the event of a downturn, like they did in 2008, and no one will be held accountable.

We have at least two generations of politicians and civil servants that grew up, professionally, under neoliberalism. They can't even concieve of economic policy that doesn't involve giving money to the rich and hoping that the market fairy will make everything all right. If you try to suggest actual, interventionist policies you're looked at like you're wearing your pants on your head.