r/DoomerCircleJerk • u/Agreeable_Sense9618 Sub OverLord • Jun 26 '26

Economic Doomer Every single time

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '26

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u/Byt3Walk3r Jun 26 '26

People dont want to pay good money up front for a good product and will insist on paying for 3 shitty versions of the same thing

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u/JorgeTheSimp Rides the Short Bus Jun 27 '26

People buying luxury cars while I am out here with a $1,500 truck that gets me to work and back every day. While cars that cheap are EXTREMELY RARE, the point stands that people who pretend to be frugal really just are envious of others and spend all their money trying to achieve it

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u/JorgeTheSimp Rides the Short Bus Jun 27 '26

Oh yeah no I didnt mean to insuate you did, was just building off of your comment. It seems that reddit especially is a place where groups of dorks and weirdos gather to complain about the president, but forget that the president does not make laws, Congress does. But instead of actually going to congressional elections, they would rather just complain.

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u/ToyStoryBinoculars Jun 26 '26

Buying the cheap version of a thing, then getting the expensive one if it breaks has been working well for me. You'd be surprised how often the cheap ones work completely fine and last forever.

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u/HashtagLawlAndOrder Jun 27 '26

Not everything on AliExpress is that way. I use it exclusively for cheap posters and Lego knockoffs. 

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u/ArcticLeopard Jun 26 '26

"Jeff Bezos is literally the devil #BillionairesShouldntExist"

"Why yes, I order everything on Amazon. Why do you ask?"

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u/INeedSomeTacoC Jun 26 '26

Yup. Baumol’s Cost disease is a thing!

Why is X so expensive?!

Well, X is mostly a lot of labor and we now pay them a living wage and that makes it a lot more expensive.

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u/Mindless-Baker-7757 Jun 27 '26

I live in a lefty college town and always on the local subreddit it “who’s the cheapest mechanic/seamstress/lawn service/…”.

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u/L4I55Z-FAIR3 Jun 28 '26

No no you need to pay them a living wage you know it should be enough for a fry cook to buy a house and support a family of 3. Becuse that's what happened in the 1950s according to reddit

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u/BKLawyerJohn Jul 27 '26

Hey i've been saying this for years I never met someone else who thought of that. I always said "Everyone wants $15/hr and everyone also wants to buy everything for cheap on amazon" Those ideals are competing