2022: #JohnNaughton lays out the well-known propertarian and Hayekian side of crypto evangelism, then this intriguing observation;
"Lots of people will point out that the Satoshi memo, which released the idea for blockchain, more or less coincides with the fall of Lehman Brothers, and... [that] being a token for the corrupt, uncontrollable nature of financial capitalism and it's untrustworthiness."
"Last year, a survey found that over 60% of food and bev brands had changed recipes since 2020."
So it's not my imagination, things are smaller, more bland, or taste differently than I recall. Just companies lowering the quality of their food to optimize profit.
Maybe they thought they could hide it while people couldn't taste things from their Covid.
@BobWilliams
Shrinkflation!
Attempting to hide inflation from consumers.
There are a range of factors, climate, conflict, but certainly iinfluencing inflation are a lot of the delayed impacts of the colossal handouts given to finance sector, hedge funds, merchant bankers etc covering those bad gambling debts of the #GFC.
There's a curious new rhetorical strategy I'm encountering more and more often in online spaces wherein ignorance about a claim is taken to refute it. It goes a bit like the script below. It's the death-of-expertise script, but with an additional twist.
@nicholas_saunders@ct_bergstrom
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, interviewed on Sky before referendum sidestepped an inability to show experts in favour of #Brexit by saying.
"the people of this country have had enough of experts"
This struck home with a lot of voters. Partly because #GFC help was chiefly given to the richest; to financial sectors, merchant bankers, hedgefunds (by Tory gvt)
Regular people & businesses paid for 'elite' screwups, while 'experts' told us our pain was necessary.
Almost no-one in #UK MSM seems to put certain things in context together.
Public spending is planned to be cut by 16.7% over 5yrs by Hunt the C-word, & I don't mean Chancellor.
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Sunak as a previous C-word, (this time I also mean Chancellor), almost uniquely amongst countries allowed tax dodger companies based in tax havens to claim Covid loans, £253 BILLION worth that public accounts said we will never likely see again. #Tory#UKPol#UKpolitics#Conservative#GTTO
Sunak as C-word, (yes also mean Chancellor again) £11bn NI tax on workers raise "for NHS"
..but entire sum redirected to bankers as totally 100% avoidable 'late fees'.
The cherry kicker on that shitcake is what the late fees were for. How Tories structured £900BILLION of tax payer handouts to finance industry billions-in-benefits claimants to pay off their bad gambling debts #GFC
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16.7% cut to taxpayer taxes being spent on taxpayers over next 5yrs #Tory#UKPol#UKpolitics#Conservative#GTTO