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Always amazes how prices on everything skyrocket instantly for no good reason, then never get reduced even after whatever sound bite allegedly caused them, is over.
Are we sure this is economically unreasonable? I think this happens in many financial systems; all you need is for a price increase in one place to cause cost increases at a delay (ie, fast inflation), eg: by workers getting paid more so they can afford the aforementioned price increase.
(We should also note there are markets that don't do this. Air travel is a notable example.)
More interesting to me is price spikes when there's no actual increase in costs. Several of those as of late.
Prices go up, governments react to help the industries that take the money but fail to lower the prices for consumers, it happens time & time again. Even if the benefit is passed onto consumers it never returns to the pre"whatever" price, it is always slightly higher. Can you think of a thing that got a price hike that then returned to the same price, or less?
I'm sure it must happen but I'm not seeing it.
Bandaids and cosmetic change is fast, reform is slow
Good luck getting America to "rise up" - most present-day Americans couldn't revolt their way out of a Walmart.
Well we better get to it because shit is bad
Patriot Act passed in six weeks.
I wonder how many reps read it? Haha just kidding, nobody read it
No minimum wage increase in 20 years.
Universal Healthcare "debate" 40 years and counting
I distinctly remember somebody proudly declaring that they voted for it without reading it.
But muh Freedom Fries
Great examples! And the Patriot Act was over 300 pages too! IIRC that is.
Revolutionary France basically ended feudalism in one delirious evening. Change can definitely happen fast. Anyone tells you otherwise is ignoring the march of History.
"Basically" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. You can't ignore the years of buildup just because the climax itself happens quickly.
Building up is always slower than tearing down.
This admin continually breaks the law, doesn't get held accountable for it, and just doubles down...
It's exhausting.
The asset class has been pushing this change, increment by increment, piece by piece, for roughly 50 years.
It hasn't been fast.
Cheap. Fast. Good.
You can only have 2 of those at any time.
For a rich person cheap is never in the equation so for them everything is fast and good.
The only exception of course is, your mom
Mum is fast and cheap
2 Fat 2 Furious
Pre good too tho
The people saying it in good faith mean it takes time to build a coalition to actually get change through despite the powers that be fighting hard against it
The people saying it in bad faith are the powerful people making it take a long time
No. There is a third group. The group that says fighting against the powers that be is a lot easier if you take them all and put them up against a wall.
That’s not really change though. At least, not in America.
In America that’s business as usual.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2026
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