Marmoratus drew this in memory of an old joke.

They had asked a customer a given amount in dollars, they were given the same number ... in rubles.

Finances are a bad beast.

They are hard to keep hold onto and there are thousands of tiny expenses each day.

An old saying was that society was always a couple of payments away from falling.

Today's society is based on capitalism.
But people seem to think that buyers are this infinite resource.
I often tell people in charge... buyers are just your workers.
Pay your workers less, they will buy less.
Fire your workers, they will have nothing to buy.

Last couple of years unemployment was on the rise and people lost a fortune.
But they did not lose a fortune out of random reasons.
They lost a fortune because a ton of of people lost their jobs.
For years "mobility" in work was taut as this innovation that allowed people to "work from home" or gain untold amounts of wealth.
It was just a new way to Freelance workers.
Official long term unemployment was reduced by an incredibly large amount between february and may 2020.
Some estimates put 250 million people as the world wide long term job loss.

And this does not account for freelancers.
The pandemic is far from over, People are trying to cope... but... what are we doing?
I... tried my best to do my part in the last 2 years, because i saw what was happening just about everywhere.
But i definitively cannot do this alone. It is honestly time that people with a lot more money than me start spending it.
Possibly not by robbing valuable server time shares, which are better otherwise used, but actually helping each other.

Even if you cannot do much.
Saying a "thank you" to somebody who is working for you but is not directly employed by you helps even a tiny bit.
But, honestly.
Paying people what they ask is not showing "gullibleness".
It's showing respect.
If experience has taught me anything, people need some form of respect.

For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

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