Reminder that inflation isn't a phenomenon that's beyond our understanding or ability to control. Inflation is the result of business owners choosing to raise prices in order to increase their rate of profit. That's all it is.

Bold of this article to think the fundamentals of the economy will survive the coming climate apocalypse. Where the hell can I invest my money in growth when everything is either burning or flooding. Coffins?!?

My retirement plan is for a NATO-backed fascist paramilitary death squad to gun me down for harboring trans people

Retirement? My "retirement plan" is subsistence rat hunting in a bombed out Walmart, what good will money do me? Campfire tinder?

No worries. I'm poor now but I'm going to be a billionaire next week anyway.

Capitalism works!

so... like the rest of us have already found out - they can never retire unless they choose to do so in poverty.

These comments read like /r/collapse

Or a crowbar and some comrades

: "At least porky wasn't told what to do, better dead than red!"

Do you guys want to agree to do some mass suicide cult thing instead of retirement?

that's too much, where's jack kevorikian?

Which one of us is going to be the first to commercialise the suicide booth?