Target profit plunges 90% as inflation-weary shoppers pull back
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Target reported profit plunged 90% in the second quarter, falling far short of expectations, as inflation-weary customers pulled back on spending on nonessential items.

Like this is a genuine question for me. There seems to be some lack of awareness on the part of the people who make decisions that a consumers need to have money to consume with or the whole system siezes like an engine with no grease. The plebes need to be given back some share of profits so they can continue to purchase stuff and keep the whole system from breaking down.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Wanna know my conspiracy theory? They know the doom is coming soon. They just need the illusion of stability for a few more quarters before the veil fully falls and everyone finds out how fucked it is.

    They are intentionally destroying everything because they think they can use their hoards to transition into the technocrat feudalism their policies brought about. They're cashing out so they can buy in after the system crash. Jokes on them there is no future if they get their way. Socialism or barbarism, no more margins like liberalism can exist. No more social democracy- the era of the great excess is over. We are not living in pre-apocalyptic times. The veil has already begun to fall.

    Remember forever that apocalypse does not mean "the end of the world." It means "to reveal that which was previously concealed." The implication of course that it was already here. Long ago. But now we can see it for what it is.

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Remember forever that apocalypse does not mean “the end of the world.” It means “to reveal that which was previously concealed.” The implication of course that it was already here. Long ago. But now we can see it for what it is.

      :tumbling-down:

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Remember forever that apocalypse does not mean “the end of the world.” It means “to reveal that which was previously concealed.”

      That's a great point.

      apocalypse | etymonline

      late 14c., "revelation, disclosure," from Church Latin apocalypsis "revelation," from Greek apokalyptein "uncover, disclose, reveal," from apo "off, away from" (see apo-) + kalyptein "to cover, conceal," from PIE root *kel- (1) "to cover, conceal, save." The Christian end-of-the-world story is part of the revelation in John of Patmos' book "Apokalypsis" (a title rendered into English as pocalipsis c. 1050, "Apocalypse" c. 1230, and "Revelation" by Wyclif c. 1380).

      Its general sense in Middle English was "insight, vision; hallucination." The meaning "a cataclysmic event" is modern (not in OED 2nd ed., 1989); apocalypticism "belief in an imminent end of the present world" is from 1858. As agent nouns, "author or interpreter of the 'Apocalypse,'" apocalypst (1829), apocalypt (1834), and apocalyptist (1824) have been tried.

      PIE is Proto-Indo-European.

      Proto-Indo-European language

      Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists. [...] PIE is hypothesized to have been spoken as a single language from 4500 BC to 2500 BC during the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, though estimates vary by more than a thousand years.

    • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      my conspiracy is that making life shitty and expensive is their way of reducing population growth so humans don't over populate the earth

        • barrbaric [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Of course, but if the highest bourgeoisie are operating under the assumption that resource consumption per capita must continually increase, the obvious thing for them to turn to in order to prevent total climate collapse is population control.