War is good for business
3 years ago
Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
Rule #34: War is good for business.
It was so good for business that the currency I earn my wage in has fallen to never seen depths, even if it's not Rubel, it Hungarian worthless forint. So there is nice big inflation going on right now. Like food items doubling in price in a year. Gas shortage so I havve to spend hours in a line to fill up on the station. Other fun stuff.
I was finally started to do a bit better and even had made a small investment to save funds up for something maybe a screen tablet who knows? Well, that also went down thanks to Putin's war.
What I feel is that I worked as a slave for 10 years, barely spending living like a spartan, paying back loans, student depth, and trying to save every penny. For what? For the first crisis to take its way. A life worth living. This feeling has crippled me so there is no art. I also don't know when will there be, because right now I have to come to terms that a decade of my life is gone. So I just sit here alone, in a cold room, and do depressing things like trying to figure out how this all went so wrong.
Rule #34: War is good for business.
It was so good for business that the currency I earn my wage in has fallen to never seen depths, even if it's not Rubel, it Hungarian worthless forint. So there is nice big inflation going on right now. Like food items doubling in price in a year. Gas shortage so I havve to spend hours in a line to fill up on the station. Other fun stuff.
I was finally started to do a bit better and even had made a small investment to save funds up for something maybe a screen tablet who knows? Well, that also went down thanks to Putin's war.
What I feel is that I worked as a slave for 10 years, barely spending living like a spartan, paying back loans, student depth, and trying to save every penny. For what? For the first crisis to take its way. A life worth living. This feeling has crippled me so there is no art. I also don't know when will there be, because right now I have to come to terms that a decade of my life is gone. So I just sit here alone, in a cold room, and do depressing things like trying to figure out how this all went so wrong.
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Don't blame yourself for stupid bullies who want to take over the sandbox. It is impossible for anyone to know what the future holds. We all do our best with the knowledge we have.
The only time that is truly wasted is time that helps no one. Don't let the bullies win by sitting back defeated. You're better than them. You're better than inflation. You're smart enough to figure something out! I follow you because I like what you do. You are NOT in this alone. What can we do to help? Anything?
Be strong. I believe in you!
Rachael
Your comment came off extremely naive that's it.
I choose to ignore Mate397's callous and myopic view, dear LandingZone. I JUST got Donationalerts.com to work with another artist and sent them some support. i will gladly do the same for you if I can! Do you wish to have some commission work or something of the like?
That is, if he wants to conquer anymore... I think he understands occupying Ukraine would probably go worse than Afghanistan for his Government.
So all that's left is killing people and destroying anything that's required for a normal life. Like hospitals, power generation...
Though don't forget that there is plenty of friendly fire among ukranians.
War is expensive in lives. And yes, both countries will be worse off. But I think Ukraine will be the worse of the two. For lives lost, displaced, permanently scarred and injured (not just physically)...
A lot of those were probably pulled from 'Our World'. A lot of ST is social commentary, after all ... things that already exist, only set in a fictional universe.
And I saw the f* ptin video too. :)
As of right now, forget the future and just take one step at a time, day by day to get through this, also try to reconnect with family or friends since a support network like that is invaluable.
For future reference - do not save in your own currency or use iffy banks belonging to Russia or China (a lot of people here got hung out to dry when Sberbank went under), use either Euro, Dollar or gold/silver since if those fail, money will be the last of your problems.
Take kare and hang in there.
In 2008 my family had a nice fat loan in European currency. I still paying back that when it skyrocketed out of control, and it wasn't even my loan. Heh, the Big bank man cant lose its expected interest money. Oh but I can.
I learned that there isn't a safe bank for regular people, only for entities that are too big to fail. Bank where you want, if a mad man somewhere on this big globe does some crazy shit you might just end up penniless overnight if you are unlucky enough.
https://m.eremshop.hu/datadir/terme.....-2626-2220.jpg
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Our local transport-businesses are screaming for lowering the taxes for fuel, but our useless government do nothing!
The result is our supplychains will collapse and our supermarkets stay empty.
I wish you good luck for the near future and i can share your feelings for a bit. Hope we will come through in this age of decay and democra(z)y. >_<
War is good for business . . . for the rich. They get even richer, and the non-rich get crushed underfoot.
And the location, no? It'd be hard to compare Yugoslavian Xers to American Millennials, don't you think?
Here are a few things that expand on the issues (foul language warning):
https://youtu.be/aTZ-CpINiqg
https://youtu.be/GL-ZoNhUFmc
Gen Xers have seen SIX global recessions (or five, depending on your definition), and many are wondering if their retirement savings are going to be worth a damn when they reach the age, or if they're going to have to work into their 70s.
We went from living under the threat of nukes, to recession, to peace, another recession, to maybe things being peaceful, followed by a nasty attack that triggered another recession and a major conflict...
The 90s were supposed to be 'peace dividends'. And what did we get out of it? Wars resulting from the piss-poor decisions of our Boomer leaders, and recessions...
Depending on the recovery, Xers will have a shorter time to get back up economically for retirement than Millennials or Zers will...
Most millennials don't have any retirement at all. Once it looked like there were going to get their "90s" the pandemic hit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a.....ration/609832/
"The Millennials entered the workforce during the worst downturn since the Great Depression. Saddled with debt, unable to accumulate wealth, and stuck in low-benefit, dead-end jobs, they never gained the financial security that their parents, grandparents, or even older siblings enjoyed. They are now entering their peak earning years in the midst of an economic cataclysm more severe than the Great Recession, near guaranteeing that they will be the first generation in modern American history to end up poorer than their parents."
Én az inflációt a bolti árakban láttam elszállni. Az árak már-már haladó ország szintű külföldiek, a fizetés bezzeg alig változott. Be akarják vezetni az Eurót itt??? Az árak ott vannak, de a fizetést tuti meg kellene duplázni vagy triplázni MINIMUM, hogy hasonlóak legyünk pl Németországhoz. De szerintem "efféle jólét" nem fenyeget minket, mert ha Euró lenne itt, akkor külföld könnyen belelátna a pénzügyeinkbe, és rájönnének mennyire át vagyunk vágva...a munkásosztály elsősorban. A korrupciós ügyekre is könnyebben fény derülne. Nem akarja ezt a jelenlegi...szóval aki korrupt.
Visszatérve az inflációra, én is bevásárlásnál tapasztalom. Hús, kenyér, sajt, meg nagy álltalában minden ami nem-megújuló egyszeri használatos termék (mosópor, wc papír, sampon, stb.), mindnek az ára szinte majdnem megduplázódott. Én abban a helyzetben vagyok, hogy szeretek jókat enni, és megveszem amit kell, hogy jól éljek amíg élek, de nem lájkolom hogy ugyanazért duplát fizetek, amíg a fizetésem sehova nem mozdult, mondjuk felfelé ha lehetne!
A pizzás is árat emelt, így amit szoktunk rendelni filmhez, bár nagyon finom és jól megrakják, 2800Ft-ról 3500Ft-ra emelkedett. Ugyanazért +700Ft-ot kiadni...Kiadom, de tuti sokkal kevesebbszer. Ugyanez volt anno a Chips-adóval (ami pont chips-re nem volt kiadva), és amit szerettem kapott egy +100Ft vagy nagyobb emelést. Utálok többet adni ugyanazért, és persze a fizetés maradt a régi. Megveszem amit szeretek, és amit muszáj mert bevált, de nem szeretem amikor a zsebem lyukasnak érződik.
Nem üt meg az infláció egzisztenciális szinten, de a hátamba tőrt nem kérek! Tényleg sajnálom hogy meg kell húznod a gatyafűzőt! Van nálunk is munkatárs, aki lassan állt talpra. Házat épít és hónapról hónapra él. Sikerült neki összeszedni 900ezer forintot, de ugye az semmi, ha ki kell majd adnia valamire, pl. bebútorozni. Kis lépéseket tesz és inkább lassan fejlődik, de van ennyi pénze vész estére. Neki sem jött jól az áremelés, az biztos.
Az orosz kútfej meg jobb lenne ha nyugdíjazná magát, ahelyett hogy bekavar a kisembereknek! Remélem a közelébe lesz olyan merész/hős aki megállítja, vagy rábeszéli a háború abbahagyására! Egyértelműen beletört a bicskája, és már csak hülye döntéseket hozhat...és hozott amikor belekezdett.
A kromatikus sárkányuralom (szerény személyem vezetésével) megoldás lesz minden halandónak...Csak Tiamat parancsára várok és indítom a felszabadító légierőt!