If inflation didn't increase my wages then why should it increase video game prices?
>>732350223>inflation didn't increase my wagesskill issue
Because we have reached the level where technological progress doesn't compensate for the increased monetary supply floating around.Also, wages never managed to keep up, there were always certain goods that became increasingly expensive and less affordable, like houses. It, however, now affects everything.
>>732350223>I can't negotiate a proper wage with my boss so instead the rest of the economy should change to accomodate me
>>732350638>negotiatelolololololololololol
>>732350638>can I have some more money please?>no>a couple weeks later>get laid offSmart move
>>732350793so what you're doing isn't actually valuable. there, now we know why your wage didn't increase.
>>732350638salary negotiations for many jobs have been phased out because men are more skilled at it and companies want to fight the gender wage gapof course in reality it's just to suppress wages
What need to happen is a revolution. But it won't. So.
>>732350793>>732352218>>732352342Listening to non-unionized laborers feels like slum tourism.
>>732350223You get what you pay for. If you pay for overpriced crap, you will get more overpriced crap.
>>732355302>Listening to non-unionized laborers feels like slum tourism.it's pretty much 90% of the US outside of the trades.
What if video games just didn’t spend half their budget on marketing and didn’t get celebrities
>>732350223Yeah dont care i would do a shitty work at my job and leave vulnerabilities in my shitty code and then i would get quit fired while i look for another job though...
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>>732350223Because you're 1) competing with the chinese on wages. They don't make bad cheap shit anymore. They manufacture goods just as good as yours but for half the salary. Tariffs help, but your factory output is also reliant on chinese raw input so you're fucked either way. And 2) investors demand more dividends these days. Governments have started dumping money into companies which just pass them on to investors. This means investors prioritize these high dividend companies at the expense of others. That means that other companies, in order to secure investments, need to cut costs everywhere they can and salaries are a big part of that. Oh and the reason governments dump money into companies for competitiveness is largely due to the chinese doing the same for decades now. It's only an issue now because the products have finally caught up and in some cases overtaken western equivalents.
>>732357469>chinks are behind it all
my neetbux gets automatically raised each year
>>732350223Inflation has always been a veiled tax. The government is simply taking and spending a greater part of your wages now
>>732350223What does inflation even mean if not that things cost more?
>>732361462It means money has less value.
>>732360565That dog looks like ukiyo-e artwork.
>>732350223your wages went down to protect the customervideogames went up because fuck you
I'm more concerned about what's the end goal with inflation. I mean, economy "experts" claims, since few decades, that inflation is supposed to be "good", for economy by "stimulating exports". But since it means slow decrease in value of money you already have, it hurts everything involved instead. The only way to not be affected by inflation is to spend your entire income in short time period but this also makes no sense since it limits severely what you can buy to your income and effectively cuts you out of more expensive goods like housing - which actually is crucial and not "luxury" good since everyone have to live somewhere. This especially hurts young couples, preventing them from forming new families (since they have no guaranteed place to live and rise kids) and is one of most important reasons behind dropping birthrates, which in turn hurts economy in long run. But with steady inflation, you have to reach the point where people will earn literal millions (see various African countries) that are completely worthless, which in turn will cause society to collapse one way or another.I'm confused.
>>732363202>you have to reach the point where people will earn literal millions (see various African countries) that are completely worthless, which in turn will cause society to collapse one way or anotherYou make it sound like society will collapse simply because numbers are too big. A man in one country takes home 100 monies from his job that day and pays 10 monies for dinner on the way home. A man in another country earns 10,000 monies at his job and pays 1,000 monies for his dinner. One is not more prone to collapsing than the other.Countries experiencing hyperinflation collapsed because prices basically doubled (or more) every single day, and they just kept speeding up the money printing in an attempt to outrun their own mistakes. Zimbabwe towards the end had a yearly inflation measured in millions of percent.With a 2% yearly inflation (what's considered "healthy" inflation by economists) it takes 36 years for prices to double. >end goalthe "end goal" (read: continuous goal) is to stimulate the economy by encouraging people to spend instead of hoard.
>>732350223Inflation has no bearing on game prices. A game is an immaterial idea that can be sold an arbitrary amount of times at negligible cost.A game should not cost more than 20$ regardless of what those 20$ are worth.>Oh but inflation caused everything to cost moreJust hire fewer people to work less and make shorter games with less content, and I'm not kidding. The actual cost of game production is completely arbitrary and can literally be done by one man if you get the right man and the right idea.>Oh but we want to make more moneyThen sell more games, which you will do by selling at lower cost.Jacking up game prices in the post-digital download era is purely for the bagholders and whales, if you can't sell a game at 20$ and come out ahead, then your game and business model just aren't very good.
>>732352286This. If you don't get at least yearly raises to cover for inflation, you're a loser and in no position to discuss financials.
>>732361825which means . . . ?
>>732350223You voted to import unlimited third worlders
>>732350223Because video game prices have barely moved with inflation for well over a decade while your wages would have Now pay up $100 a game you peasant
>>732364978>stimulate the economy by encouraging people to spend instead of hoardBut hoarding aka saving is the only way to acquire expensive goods like housing. Inflation makes those goods unreachable and creates situation where people cannot afford what they need nor cannot save to be able to do so.I was saving money to buy my own apartment but prices inflated so much that I will never be able to afford one now, even with high paid job. I ended with large savings that are still not enough to buy what I need and overblown for "entertainment" or other money waste. I either waste this whole effort or let the money rot. I chose the latter and honestly doubt it's good for economy.
>muh stagnant wagesthe median American wage in 2016 was $845/weekand the median American wage in 2025 was $1192/weekthat's a 30% increase, which is almost exactly the same as the equivalent increases in median rent, groceries, etcstop falling for the demoralization propaganda you fucking tards
>>732368620Those certainly are numbers with no sources or data backing them up.
>RAM is more expensive >SSDs are more expensive >GPUs are more expensive (again) >groceries are getting more expensive >everything revolving around cars is getting more expensive >healthcare is getting more expensive>Trump announced he is deliberately going to keep housing prices high >Stocks, crypto, and precious metals are all down
>>732350223Because video games are a luxury which means they can charge whatever the fuck people are willing to pay. The fact that your concern is video games and not housing or groceries would inply you're doing fine and should shut the fuck up.
>>732360565It's true though. They're an industrialised production powerhouse, there's a few other countries now on the rise in that regards too. It's impossible to compete with them and we're in a collapsing economic spiral because of it. The chinks are absolutely dominating the west.
>>732363202Inflation helps the US economy because the entire world keeps reserves in USD, so making the money worth less means it lowers the capital of other countries.
>>732368689sorry, I didn't think I needed to teach you how to google shit>https://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.t01.htmyou need a tutorial on wiping your ass next?
>>732352286Slaughtered that Anon, oof.
>>732350223The cost the making games is higher than cost of paying you and this isnt communism so that takes the precedent over you.
>>732363202Some inflation is necessary because hypothetically speaking, if there was never any inflation and prices continued to decline as businesses are able to produce more goods more efficiently and demand does not remain consitedreht then people won’t buy, they will be eternal waitbros, constantly waiting for the price to go down which leads to even less demand and then mass layoffs
>>732363202If money is worth less over time, you're incentivized to invest it. (putting it back in the economy)If money is worth more over time, you're incentivized to hold on to every dollar as long as possible. (taking it out of the economy)
>>732369113 Yeah but that only works as long as people keep using the dollar. Once enough countries decide to ditch USD reserves and trade in other currencies (like BRICS trying to push their own system), the whole game shifts. It’s a short-term strategy that weakens domestic purchasing power and bets everything on global dominance staying unchallenged. Problem is, that dominance ain’t what it used to be. You can only offload inflation onto the rest of the world for so long before it snaps back.
>>732369002That just happened because the USA committed suicide and exported all its industries to China just to save some money. Boomers sacrificed the future of its children for short term profits. China today would be nothing if not for this.
>>732370353>USA committed suicideYou mean it died from homicide by the israelites that took over Wall Street in the 80's and immediately handed everything over to communists.
>>732350223>having a job
>>732371765Yeah, well no American did anything about it. Just like nobody is doing anything about the cannibal child rapists from the Epstein Island.
>>732350459>technological progressSuch as?
>>732363202>which in turn hurts economy in long runJust import dumber and cheaper people with lower standards dude, it's that easy.
>>732372169Mostly just more ways to control and spy on the citizens.
>>732350223because capitalism bby, get fucked
>>732372593Define capitalism.
>>732350223You don't understand the point of inflation. Humanity must be reduced to a tortured slave race, living in the dirt and existing only to serve a small minority of rich, powerful, sadistic, narcissistic sociopaths. Inflation is just one means to that end.
>electricity is adjusted to inflation annually in my country>my rent is adjusted to inflation each year>the salary of most people (except for me) are adjusted to inflation, which increases the operational costs of that company, which makes them increase priceswhat's the fucking point of all of this? if you adjust everything to inflation, then everything costs more and makes inflation worse
>>732368529>apartmentthe eternal boomer hoarding properties is not inflation
>>732373336>what's the fucking point of all of this?To keep you poor. The entire system is designed to keep you, and as much people as possible, poor.
>>732373336>if you adjust everything to inflation, then everything costs moreyes that's what inflation is
>>732369820>>732369892That would literally never happen. This is just rich psycopaths projecting their mentality onto normal people
>>732373336>what's the fucking point of all of this?Punishing you for existing.
>>732373557what did he mean by this
>>732373572Rich psychopaths are the only people who matter, this world exists to be their playground, and the rest of us exist to be tortured for fun. Earth MUST become the biggest torture chamber ever.
>>732350223Liar.
>>732373396only central banking and their money printing mafia where everyone suffers except other banks and governments
>>732371958I can't believe I'm genuinely enjoying a shen comic.
>>732374728>the times, they are a-changing
>>732350459>like housesNot true at all, before the 70s houses were bought and sold based on their utility value and not as an investment vehicle.
