xapr [he/him]

Fair enough. I fear that a lot of the damage that’s being done will be very difficult to undo, and that any power we or the government had against corporations and billionaires is on a seemingly irreversible downward trend, barring some dramatic development.

I was curious about this too, particularly if and how well the Meta Quest 3 mirroring/tethering or whatever they call it works.

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Corporations can get away with unreasonably and unjustifiably raising prices because government power to control them decreases year by year, and is just about to be completely extinguished in the US by the current administration. Same thing with corporations violating the law - it’s just a little further behind. This has been a continuous process of the people with money and power dismantling all the systems that can keep them in check over the last several decades.

Look, I don’t doubt that some of what you outlined had a role in inflation. But unlike you, I think that absolving corporations of blame here is the real copout.

Your last paragraph makes it sound like the poor, innocent corporations didn’t have a choice and were forced to crank their profits up when they saw a $$$ opportunity, because what else were they to do in the middle of a pandemic ravaging the country? Poor angels!

https://www.epi.org/blog/profits-and-price-inflation-are-indeed-linked/

Please, multiple studies were done about the causes of the recent wave of inflation and they determined that the vast majority of it was a result of greedy corporations taking the opportunity to boost their profits.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

Very good observation. On the high end of that bell curve, there’s Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_monetary_theory

What I was referring to was more the idea that they need to go back to buying Russian fuel, because solar panels are destroying their electrical grid, and the Russian economy is doing great because sanctions actually helped it enormously.

But from what I understand, those things you listed are all at least partly true, from a strictly economic perspective. I agree that it’s a poorly thought-out opinion from an environmental / climate perspective though.

I agree that it’s odd that a collapse community (presumably pro-environment?) post would argue for using more fossil fuels instead of renewables, but looking at it from a strictly economic perspective, my understanding is that Europe not buying natural gas from Russia is indeed severely affecting their economy.

Any news on upgrading to 0.19.5 or are the admins waiting for 0.19.8?