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[-] Blapoo@lemmy.ml 85 points 11 months ago

Wages do need to come down.

For a very small number of people who seem to have all of the wages.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 29 points 11 months ago

Yeah the mean should go down but the median should go up. Those outliers at the top are a problem.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

Perhaps we should eliminate the outliers so we can get a more accurate understanding of the normal distribution.

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

That was the most professional version of a call to guillotines that I've ever heard.

[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

;) Gotta package it right

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

One of my favorite things on this earth is capitalists admitting that if wages ever rise such that workers can afford a decent life, the price of a decent life will just rise to exclude them in the same breath they use to talk about how capitalism lifts people out of poverty.

[-] Chives@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 12 points 11 months ago

Nice to see so much crossover interest from other instances on this one. Love the federation!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Well... they're partially correct. If we cut "wages" at the top, then prices will go down because they're no longer being pulled up.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

Specifically, the economy is a Ponzi Scheme!

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Pyramid scheme.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I don't remember the Fed saying anything like that a year & a half ago.

[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Powell has been saying this for a long time. He doesn't seem to like that people are making more money.

Here's just one of a plethora of examples you can find if you'd just Google it.

[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Why do I get the feeling he's not talking about the rich here?

[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Because of course he's not. To me it seems he's definitely more concerned about the pockets of the ruling class. Just my opinion of course.

[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Yep. Rather than it being corporate greed driving everything (which has been reported on from many angles), it's actually people making too much money that is the problem per Powell.

[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Exactly. This is the guy saying unemployment needs to be higher. Like wtf, you actually want more people out of work.

Higher wages is not what is driving inflation, it's pure greed. Proven over and over again.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think they mean that no one in the government ever said that no one wants to work, it was just tight fisted business owners with no brains.

[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When people say the Fed in this context (the tweet) they generally mean the Federal Reserve which is headed by Jerome Powell.

[-] Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty ambiguous and they responded to my comment but not to say that was the case.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 11 months ago

I mean.... it's isn't those things. It's literally a government agency. It can't "make profit", it literally is the banking system, not a bank itself.

[-] Chives@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 10 points 11 months ago

It is literally not a government agency. It operates under a mandate from congress, but is not a government agency.

[-] WitchHazel@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 11 months ago

Congress isn't a business, but Pelosi sure made a shitton of money off of insider trading. At best we live in an oligarchy that poses as a democratic republic. The votes follow the money, not vice versa.

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