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Could I have some of that deflation
Deflation tends to trigger massive layoffs since revenue drops and investment becomes a worse option than saving.
Everyone always hopes that economic downturns will affect everyone but them specifically, but it really doesn't work that way.
Meanwhile we have inflation and layoffs.
Unemployment is essentially the same as it was before the pandemic, and is actually a bit lower than it was in the beginning of 2018.
Inflation is of course a problem. The point is that deflation is a much bigger problem. It's not as big an issue if you have plenty of savings to fall back on, which is to say, if you don't have savings to fall back on, you're fucked.
Unemployment is a shit metric when you can be starving, homeless, and employed. To those people, inflation is a life threatening squeeze.
Which countries do you think don't have homeless people, just out of curiosity? In the west, homelessness has almost nothing to do with actual economic factors.
You're the one who brought up layoffs, mate.
Why did you bring up a metric that you yourself are calling shit?
I just got here. But boy do I feel welcome to this conversation.
Different person
It's is quite shocking how much people on the internet decry financial illiteracy, and the turn around and demonstrate financial illiteracy.
I concur!
Ah yes, 0.5% deflation will have people clamoring to save their money instead of investing. Following your logic, prices should just never ever drop.
Buy crappy Made in China stuff. I personally buy higher quality because it lasts longer. It's far more expensive but lasts a lifetime. For example, you can buy living room furniture for $3000 and it lasts five years, or spend $8000 and it lasts 40 years.
Fact of the matter is that most people can't afford an $8000 furniture set. They may end up paying more for furniture in the long run than someone who can afford that set, but that's just the unfortunate way of things. This well summed up in one of Terry Pratchett's books:
So they will spend $12,000 in the end on shit, replacing it again and again.
Yes, in the end they spend more, but in the present, that’s what their circumstances can afford them.
Not everyone has the luxury to spend thousands on furniture at one time like you do apparently.
That is why they can't get ahead. You don't buy garbage. You save up and buy something that will last, but no, they only buy cheap garbage.
sigh
While I agree with your strategy, I also have enough awareness that this strategy doesn’t work for everyone.
If someone needs a bed to sleep, but they only have enough for a cheap bed, they buy the cheap bed and hope that when it wears out they can buy a better, higher quality one. They don’t forgo a bed and have worse health, they get what they can to get by.
Go tell the single mother of four that she bought a garbage table so her kids have a place to eat and she should’ve bought the quality table that costs two months of her rent, because it lasts longer.
They should've eaten on the floor for a few years until they could get a really good table. /s
People want things now, not later.
People also need things now, not later.
They often need things now.
Yes. Isn't it a saying, "It's really expensive being poor." Or something like that.
If you aren't sitting on lots of cash and are already in debt, you simply don't have a choice to buy the longer lasting item.
What if I want to persue hobbies and interests before I retire?
Doesn't matter both are made In China.
My future was made in Wisconsin.
ashley. spend the $8000 and get the five years of use.
Lol. Trash furniture is made at Ashley.