re: Price Increases are Exhausting

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I suspect this has more to do with the collapse of tech funding. Many of the products we were enjoying the last decade were losing money and burning through investor cash. Now that the cash has withdrawn, the products increasingly have to stand onto their own. Hard on the consumer and the business, since the business conditioned their customers to expect these cheap prices.

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Borrowing "for free" is over - debt service is a motherfricker.

"Wait - we have to MAKE MONEY with this thing?"

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SaaS company raising pricing 70% in 18 months.

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People are starting to wake up to the reality that all the tech bullshite they’ve gotten accustomed to in the last 10ish years (uber, airbnb, door dash, streaming etc etc) wasn’t really that cheap, it was heavily subsidized by cheap VC money.


General inflation plays its part, but this particular sector of the market is much more driven by long term investors demanding profitability after a decade of burning billions in pursuit of marketshare.

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Bidens* America

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he sure as hell didn't make it better but with the out of control spending the last 20 or 30 years this was inevitable. The blame isn't on any one guy.

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People are starting to wake up to the reality that all the tech bullshite they’ve gotten accustomed to in the last 10ish years (uber, airbnb, door dash, streaming etc etc) wasn’t really that cheap, it was heavily subsidized by cheap VC money. General inflation plays its part, but this particular sector of the market is much more driven by long term investors demanding profitability after a decade of burning billions in pursuit of marketshare.

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the idea of the collapse of the bullshite tech / service industry is borderline euphoric for me.

i was talking to a guy who is a driver one of those food delivery apps the other day and he told me it's not unusual for him to deliver like a single milkshake or something to someone and that it's like $15 or something

I would be curious to hear those downvoting, and what they think ole Brandon is doing to make things better?
Just keep voting that way until we all have nothing.

Thanks to everyone who demanded to shut down the country over a spicy flu and demanded to be given free money.

Free money ain't free.

The number of people thinking and/or hoping that 2024 prices will magically go back to 2019 prices if Trump is elected is just ditzy and child-like and retarded. The only way that it could theoretically happen is if the United States hit its worse economic rough patch since the Great Depression.

You might as well believe in the Easter Bunny or the fricking Tooth Ferry.

I’ve had blink for years now and pay no fee. I don’t know if I got grandfathered in. Sends all videos to my phone where I can save them.

But yeah.

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Signs of a good economy, almost like Biden's Economic plans are working...

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or signs that people have accepted that the future is looking very bleak and have just said frick it, let's enjoy the moment.

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the WH press secretary


Politicians have always been known to be dishonest, but I have never, and I mean NEVER, seen someone lie like the current WH press secretary.

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Part of the job of being president is to take the blame for inflation and anything that goes wrong but unless you are outside the norm you can take your first hourly rate of pay or salary divided by 52 divide 40 and enter the amount in an inflation calculator and odds are pretty good you aren't making a helluva lot more than you were then...the difference is in your experience etc., most likely people in entry level positions now doing what you do are making less than you were. This is especially true if your first job goes back to the 1980s. In 1980 the minimum wage was $3.10. That was $11.46 in 2023. From 1980 - 2015 wages were basically stagnant in the US. They have outpaced inflation slightly since 2015. At the low end they have been devastated since 1980 - minimum wage today is 63% of what it was in 1980.