There’s a lot of talk about inflation and its causes. Is it corporate greed?
Yes
One clear base cause of inflation less talked about is having an inflationary currency supply. Any other inflation caused by supply chain issues, corporate greed, lack of market competition, etc is just added on top of that.
In the sense of you add a million to two, the "base" is two and the million is "just added on top of that," sure. Monopolization and price gouging are by far the larger factors.
How is that the case? Shouldn’t it cost less? Where is that “extra efficiency” going if not to lower prices? The answer:
Corporate pockets.
Poor people live hand to mouth, so their net wealth is not impacted much, but inflationary currency prevents them from saving and “moving up”.
Complete nonsense. And extra 2% interest is not the root cause of poverty. You actually missed the real way in which inflation can hurt the poor which is when corporations don't increase wages with inflation, which is effectively a pay cut. This is a form of class warfare which they are able to do because they are more powerful and better organized, as a class, than labor is.
And to Grant's point, the next day, you'll feel like you can take the afternoon off to take the kids to the park or enjoy a bike ride on the beach. This is what having a healthy, productive life looks like. You work your butt off first, and then take time to reward yourself later.
If that time off is approved and not caught in the typical bureaucratic corporate time off request processes.
If you have the time off to use.
If you aren't rewarded for your competency by being given additional work because your coworkers who can't hit that "Flow" state are just allowed to be that way.
That is the attitude of my dad's generation. He works 60+ hours a week and gets up at 4am.
He makes less than I do working 40 hours and barely getting to my computer by 8.
That advice may have been true 30 years ago but corporations do not care about you anymore. You move up by writing a good resume and switching jobs every 3 years. All that unpaid overtime you gave them means nothing. Maybe it'll help you get a raise that is less than inflation once a year.
Don’t know where you are in Canada (which I’m assuming based on “Social Insurance Number” and “Prov.” fields in the form), but at least here in BC much of what they’re asking for here is illegal to even request in the first place.
Your Drivers License, and banking info are all personal private information which are covered by the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). This guidance document from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC outlines what a perspective landlord can ask for, and what they can’t.
This is either a scam, or a really shitty landlord. Either way, don’t deal with them. You can open a complaint with the OIPC if you want (probably most useful if you’re sure they’re legit; not too useful if it’s a scam).
This is how the property rental identity theft scammers operate. They probably don't have access to the property they're advertising. If they're legit, then you can fill out the form in person, at the property. If they get defensive about showing you the inside of the property, it's because they can't. Pictures of the interior prove nothing.
Sometimes there's an application fee, sometimes there isn't. Getting $30 from you isn't the point of the scam, it's getting personal info they can use to set up credit cards or w/e in your name, or use your current address to run other scams &etc. Don't ever give out anything more than your email address (maybe phone number but I'd still be cautious with that) until they can prove they control the property. Definitely don't send them a credit report - hand them a print in person if they need it.
While landlords often aren't great, they aren't to blame for this sort of thing.
^--good example of an extremist on Lemmy. They can't pull their head out of their ass far enough to see that this is a scammer, but will full-well blame "muh landlurds".
I truly believe it is plausible because I worked somewhere that tried crap like that frequently.
Someone posted a scathing review on Glassdoor and one of the owners responded by threatening to kill himself if they didn't take the post down. Not, like in an email, no as a post. And gave his name and phone number.
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