Gotta contribute something, somewhere. But there should be no full time job that doesn’t pay someone enough to pay rent and eat and have a little pocket money.
Can’t free load, but can’t need 2 jobs just to buy groceries either.
It’s time to end compounding profits
It’s China they could end up hard coding that crap and using face verification and all that stuff.
We - used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people considered together.
Interesting. I wonder if I meant “we” as in Canadians?
Oh is that why? Why, because we make our power and don’t buy it from Canada? 😂
With my job I get other people’s hydro bills to split between upper and lower tenants and I see their bills too. While I find this bill exceptionally high, it’s not really out of whack. This is just what we pay for electricity here (in BC Canada)
For reasons I’m not sure about, I posted a screenshot of my bill below in answer to the quack telling me I don’t know what my bill was.
We live in the upper, larger portion of the house and there is a suite downstairs. I’m not sure what they get up to, but the cost is high. We have led lights, central ac which we only use conservatively. Other power sucks would be the extra fridge in garage I guess, so the household (with the suite) runs 3 fridges, 2 sets of laundry machines and 2 dishwashers. Our range is gas.
I have no idea how the bill is so high. I can only imagine how much higher it would be if I charged a vehicle on top - though I do understand that would eliminate the $120/week I spend on gasoline
Lol. I just told you I didn’t do anything different.
I didn’t do anything odd. We have central ac and ran it conservatively, and had it off for 2 weeks during vacation also.
We are on 2 month billing cycles, so this is for 60 days. But I said I got blasted with the bill this month, which is in fact the case.
No unpaid balance, just new charges. That was the cost of electricity for the last billing cycle.
I got blasted with a $700 electric bill this month, and we didn’t really do anything new or different. So this doesn’t surprise me really.
If electricity is going to cost this much, I guess the only way electric gets “cheaper” than gas is by hiking gas prices until its cheaper to charge. Consumers are never going to win though.
My God. Chat gpt and my 7 year old could do better. Fuck me.
Lol. I also have a bridge to sell you
Even more! Just ten years until Hitler takes over whichever country (Ukraine? Lol) and 16 until ww3 starts
Ahhh fascism. Is this 1923 or 2023? Fucking people
Only if owned by a solid, sensible company
reading that back I sound like a fucking shill. I do not get kickbacks lmao. Just wanted to share the programs that help when I can’t self-host.
The bots are becoming self aware 😰
It’s not hypocrisy, it’s for $. $ means it’s not hypocrisy. Haven’t you been paying attention?
But then everything everywhere would look the same - whatever random picture it uses for Blackrock
I just read the whole thing and didn’t hit one… Weird
The article isn’t very, uh, articulate in its reasoning. Nothing here is an actual real life problem it’s all just what-ifs, and 2 billion people aren’t going to quit using it
Government spend much money. Much money come from tax and borrowing. Let’s pretend there’s $100 in the economy. Gov’t takes 10% in tax. They spend $10, and the rest of the people share $90.
When next year comes, the economy grew to $110 and the government Collect $11 in tax, but actually decide to spend $20. Meaning they borrowed $9.
Year 3, economy grows to $150. Government gets $15 in tax, everyone feels “richer”, but government has to borrow to pay the $9 on last year, plus whatever new spending this year. Let’s say gov’t now owes $50.
So the next year! They create inflation and everyone has lots of money but can’t afford shit. Maybe economy balloons to stupidity like $500. Government takes $50, and pays off their debt. Or could.
In in this way, over time, inflation helps reduce the massive debt load incurred by governments because $1 is a lot easier to get in 2023 than it was in 2019.