• Dark_Blade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    People just don’t seem to understand the supply-and-demand aspect of inflation, which is what causes these braindead takes; nor do these YouTube videos bother explaining it.

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      1 year ago

      It’s madness.

      They get a viewpoint and then just agree with everything that everyone remotely says close to it without judging it.

      Then to win an argument you spam a huge amount of information that doesn’t prove the point in question but all does need to be disproved or they are magically right.

      I just hope some people reading comments and not replying at least gain some knowledge of the system they are using.

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        1 year ago

        I mean, when your worldview is challenged then you only have two options:

        a) Concede, learn, move on

        b) Stand your ground, no matter what

        The former is hard, so people pick the latter. It’s that simple.

        Also, there’s a form of comfort to be found in burying your head in the sand and pretending that simple solutions exist to complex problems. It requires less critical thinking and gives you hope that someday, somebody will say they’ve ‘had enough’ and solve problems like world hunger or poverty in one fell swoop. It’s a lot more difficult to admit that, in reality, money is inherently worthless and the labor and resources that give it value are usually finite quantities.

        Well, that or they just think economic problems are super easy to fix because their only source is a poorly-sourced YouTube video.