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TheAlbatross
joined 1 year ago
I'm easily fooled into productivity with a median wage that adjusts with inflation and quantified growth goals.
What a worthless sac... wish we could send her overseas with all these bombs and missiles they're giving Israel
Cruelty is the point in America.
The only respect I have for Ben Shapiro comes from his collection of Seforim.
Though that might be more envy than respect, those things are expensive.
Oh, look, a URL that leads to a cognitohazard!
Wild.
I think this is a different issue than big numbers.
I have zero mechanisms available to me to reign in national spending anyway. If the debt were $10 dollars, that'd still be the case. But even if I did, the national debt doesn't affect me in the slightest, why should I care if it's $10 or $10T?
Sorry, I don't think I follow as to why that's bad. If I pay, say, $1,000 in rent and earn $3,000 a month, it's the same thing as if I paid $10,000 in rent and made $30,000 a month.
While I can see how those numbers could be reduced into smaller numbers easily, I'm not sure I understand why that is beneficial. My material conditions don't change.
How does the national debt factor into that?
But the national debt is irrelevant to me. It has zero impact on my day to day life. It's just some imaginary number pundits can shout about to push their utterly disconnected agendas.
Even if I could wrap my head around it, that wouldn't improve the credit rating of the nation, even if I could manage to care one iota about that.
I'm sorry, I'm just struggling to understand why it's useful to have a national debt that's a small enough number for me to visualize some quantification of it.
Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather be paying $266 in rent, though if I'm making one third of what I do now, I'm still in the same spot, just... with smaller numbers.
Is this a problem, though? There's currencies like the Yen which have high numbers, the users just adjust their mindset of how much is "a lot". Reducing the numbers wouldn't change the problems of things getting more expensive. This feels like treating a very cosmetic symptom of a much larger problem.
The wealthy would still possess an obscene and unfathomable amount of wealth and the impoverished would still be struggling to get by, just the numbers would be smaller. Does that help anything?
The news isn't about keeping you informed, it's about selling ad space.
The names of stars draw attention, so the nonsense you're referring to is used to draw eyes to the publication which it can demonstrate via web metrics and show that to advertisers, hoping to demonstrate that it's good value to place ads with them.