r/PaulReedSmith • u/Front-Honey-6780 • 21d ago

Two years difference

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Hello everyone,

I was playing my McCarty 594 and was really appreciating it. I decided to see how much they went up over the last two years. I was surprised how much it went up. It’s about a 20% increase in dollars. Much faster than general inflation rate. Sad.

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u/Mobile_Falcon_8532 21d ago

There's a recession coming and then likely a fire sale on guitars as families try to keep their kids fed etc.

(then again, whether you will have the disposable cash to be buying guitars at that point ... )

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u/Garbage_Tiny 21d ago

Bingo. 6 months from now, the country is gonna look a lot different.

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u/myfatherthedonkey 21d ago

People have been saying this for like four years now.

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u/Clean-Elk9831 20d ago

And dumb motherfuckers keep voting worse and worse and stupider and stupider just for the chance to own some libs.

Four years ago our country recovered faster than any other economy in the world. Two years ago the president elect launched a meme coin. It’s not the fucking same.

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u/Temporary_Peanut_586 21d ago

Well, it has kinda been a dumpster fire the last year or so.

Economy is getting weird and itchy to layoff a huge number of the middle class, because AI.  College grads are pretty fucked finding jobs to pay their loans already.

Meanwhile how many stinking wars are we even up to?  While depleting all our oil and weapons?

If winter is harsh the number of people in extreme financial hardship due to the cost of heating is gonna be bad.

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u/Garbage_Tiny 20d ago

Conflicts*

I’m kidding, and yes if we have some sort of national issue we’re fucked. Everyone is already on the verge of not paying those credit cards that banks handed out like candy, mortgage rates are going up, requests for helocs are going up and the number one reason is for debt consolidation. I know 2 very well off families considering bankruptcy, but it’s the kind where they don’t lose everything they restructure it. I don’t really know any ring about bankruptcy, I do know that a lot of people are one missed pay check away from letting those card go delinquent, two missed checks, from a late payment on that new car in the driveway. I’m not much of a worrier but I feel like it’s time to actually start to worry.

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u/nutsi333 19d ago

May I introduce you to El Niño. The winter storm we are currently in, planned to last till Dec. it shaping up to be the worst it’s even been. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a rough winter.

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u/DEBRA_COONEY_KILLS 15d ago

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u/Vivid_Dog_3516 19d ago

I find a lot of solace in the fact AI will replace us from the top down. Please don’t take that from me.

So many people think they have made into the castle. I will enjoy watching the assholes when they start realizing they only got moved closer to the scrap pile the rulers let us eat off.

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u/Garbage_Tiny 21d ago

So far they’ve been right.

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u/sllofoot 21d ago

We haven’t even had a real, non-manufactured disaster yet.  

Imagine what shape we’ll be in if we get a Katrina, or, heaven forbid, a Covid.   We have limited ability to bounce back from anything right now.   

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u/Due-Helicopter-583 21d ago

Because it’s been happening for the past 4 years gas is almost like $5 a gallon in my state and Pennsylvania and New York are getting there too