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AI: Artificial Inflation.
Tell me again how it's my fault for inflation because I sought out higher pay. >

No no, it’s because the gosh darned unemployment rate is just too low. It gives the workers too much power to leave shitty jobs and negotiate pay and that’s like really bad for the economy.
We are in a dystopian hell. >


It gives the workers too much power to leave shitty jobs and negotiate pay

As a worker, this is news to me. When we ask for better pay, they still tell us to go fuck ourselves in the ass and die. >

You need to consider moving companies in order to advance if your company isn’t providing opportunities. There is a very competitive job market, especially if you come across as half competent in interview.
Hopping across two or three companies over a few years will get you career advancement faster than hanging around an employer who takes you for granted.
I don’t take my own advice, it’s a difficult step to take outside your comfort zone, but then again I have decent advancement where I am. >

This depends a lot on the job and industry. My industry is very heavily specialized, so job hopping every few years when it takes a year to train you looks really bad. But in comparison, my salary is really good so I don't have the need to leave that some might.
For most jobs, I 100% agree with you. But I don't think it should be done without consideration just because someone on reddit said so. >

Of course they have, nothing like gouging customers and blaming the war in Ukraine for increased prices >

I'm more outraged by the fact that they have made record profits and then said "you know those promises we made, yeah, nah". If anything they have more buffer to invest in renewable technologies, but I guess the gravy train is too good. >

Every oil exec commits crimes against humanity on the daily, so them breaking promises seems… par for the course, really. >

Crimes against humanity don't matter when every agency responsible for punishing those people means fuck all >

By design! >

So record profits again, energy bills have doubles, climate change targets missed, and we're facing potentially higher energy bills in the coming months?
This is ridiculous. There are thousands upon thousands of households out there still recoiling from the last set of bill increases, and the rich just get richer. >

Here's a fun fact for you: what's the most profitable company in the world?
Saudi Aramco - the planet Jupiter in the oil company solar system. Made approx 170 billion in 2022. Dwarfing the western oil companies. 
By revenue there's a couple energy companies in China that exceed Saudi Aramco. But their profits are far less. They're state owned and I think the CCP uses them to fuel Chinese lifestyles and industries more than make profits for themselves. >

You cannot compare Aramco with others. The profits are used to run the entire country, fund multiple govt depts, billions in social welfare pays to Saudi citizens and whatnot. BP profits are solid profits going nowhere but to BP. >

Saudi Arabia from what I have heard is also forward thinking. They are Olveston that oil money into building up their tourism industry so when the oil begins to run out they aren't left scrambling for a new source of income. >

"forward thinking" >

They definitely plan ahead! Then they plan the arms. Then they plan the legs.
Gotta figure out what you're going to do with the limbs of dissident journalists, before you brutally murder them and chop them up with a bone saw. >

In before, "You guys just don't understand supply and demand". >

Inflation, you say, I can't see how... >

Oil and gas companies are the primary cause of inflation. >

Edit to add here in the US. I swear the recession around ‘08 was caused by high gasoline costs. In my state, the cost of a gallon of gas doubled from when we bought our home in ‘03. That means everything that has to be transported ended up costing more. It got to the point people couldn’t afford to drive to work and just quit which then means they lost their homes, cars and couldn’t buy things that helped prop up the economy. Rinse and repeat for a year then we spiraled into the recession. The mortgage industry was the scapegoat but even then almost every quarter the damn gas companies posted their “highest profits”. >

That's why they called it: "The 07/08 Mortgage Crisis" no one could afford a mortgage so they had to, you know, manipulate some things to get profits back up to a respectable number. >

You can manipulate numbers but those buyers had jobs when applying for the loans. It really hit hard in my area when auto sales tanked so then the people who were not union working at auto supplier companies lost their jobs. >

Windfall profits tax. Yowzaa. >

Can we all agree that a corporation which doubles its profits thanks to record inflation and war needs to have all its assets seized as it contributes only evil to humanity? >

This is happening across most of the industries telling us their prices are only high because of inflation. Yet net profits are all at record levels, not gross but net. >

No no no nooooo! It’s ThE PrESidEnT making the higher gas prices! >

Doesn't he have a switch on his desk that he flips to control fuel prices? /s >

It's a knob, not a switch. >

He's a knob. But that's another topic. >

Just obscene, not going to rant, simply obscene! >

So we can steal Russians stuff and keep it. It's time to raid these thieves bank accounts and give it back to the people. Modern Robinhood.
It baffles me that the government is aware and just says ohhhh nevermind what the hell happened to out profiteering laws? Takes the piss. This is a straight up win for the Labour government, bye Conmen. >

Absolutely disgusting