Workers at Apple's NYC store have started collecting signatures to form a union

Inflation is a slur for wages. They're just based on that. The computer and the car are bullshit things to get leaf workers to take pay cuts and pitiful raises. And the basket doesn't actually expand the percentage alloted to a need when that need becomes more expensive, talking food medicine (commonly and wrongly called healthcare) housing and education. It's a stupid point system, OK every point system is stupid in some way, by design, point systems are for when you don't want to respect the problem you're trying to solve and want people to cooperate--but not with a high degree of integrity, the guy designing the point system took the task on almost always with the aim of making some cozy little loopholes for himself--that's when you get a point system. They're stupid because people enjoy stupid point systems, they find them gratifying and entertaining, they're like a board game in fact. But inflation is just not only a stupid point system, it's just fucking cruel too, it's all set up to harm leaf workers. It pretends there's another layer to a simple fact: that when a man is anointed a billionaire, he doesn't measure anything in dollars anymore, he measures it in how low he can get people to go in massive numbers. That's why productivity went up but wages stagnated, and actually Americans are taking education super seriously, high schoolers study like fuck to get into elite colleges, and of course productivity is a McDonald's marketing term for education, you can't get people to make more wealth without making them smarter, meaning educate them. And productivity makes it sound like the MBA should get the credit, the money and the glory, for niggling people in the most cowardly ways.

One example: so McDonalds got sued for the hot coffee right? Well in order to make the stigmatization of the scalded sweet old lady who pissed them off for refusing to let them fuck her life up in exchange for a mouthful of ash (they offered her $800 for expensive and permanently painful genital skin grafts), in order to make her look like a complete bitch per the PR team's mission statements, like to make the MBAs happy, there was a media blackout on people getting burned in the shower.

It happens in Lolita, the little girl flushes the toilet while the pederast (played by Jack Nicholson) is in the shower, and the cold water is diverted into the toilet temporarily, scalding Jack Nicholson and making him scream. A classic prank. He didn't scream because he was a pervert, in fact he screamed because we've all been there and when a shower is too hot that's no joke you gotta react right away! You can't look at the clock to know when you've been in hot water too long anymore than you need to calculate the a car's distance speed and acceleration to know if you're going to get hit, dude don't think, FUCK FUCK FUCK react! Or like when cooking with boiling water, you gotta time it to the tenth of a second like it's a Jujutsu choke hold, you gotta pull your fingers out of that scald, that motherfucking harmful scald, last second if you don't want to end up with blisters on your fingers for ten days. Oh so you do in fact remember blisters on your fingers from getting scalded? Getting brainwashed is perfectly understandable, but getting spine-washed? And you realize you never hear that word scalded, not even on the SAT in fact, the media blackout reaches even the standardized tests, media said "burned" specifically because they found that triggered focus group's incredulity, water doesn't burn, fire burns, and water puts out fire, McDonalds' is the victim.

But it does scald, so they take that word out of the vocabulary. And that's where the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis comes in, "when there's absolutely no choice" meaning whenever the torturer, Jorge, feels like it, him and his fellow torturers reach into your brain to black shit out.[1] Being super literal here. Blacking shit out with blackouts (amnestic drugs, aka roofies, but clinical-grade, not the date-rape variety because with these the rapist doesn't even bother with a date), the term "blackouts" were blacked out when I was blacked out, I had to flashback on the concept of flashbacks, one memory I recovered a decade later was that "amnesia is never retrograde like in Hollywood" according to wikipedia, proving the opposite, amnesia is exactly as pornographic as in Hollywood, like in Memento, that movie was blacked out too. Clockwork Orange, blacked out, in layers, a friend called Sam Genecin witnessed me lashing on personality conditioning part, this was last year, and the blackout was 2009. No recall of Total Recall, itself about memory manipulation. They lobotomized everything related to "lobotomy" including a magic card called "Lobotomy" which I couldn't recall like I normally would, and other lobotomies were also blacked out.

If you read my comments I talk about how that concept censored in my own nervous system according to its own logic, and was finally flashed on, and instantly proving itself true, so it's a law now. I have a unique memory that never forgets definitions, I was the best student in Chile in my year by some definitions (best SATs, best college results) up until the lobotomy, I only forgot definitions due to lobotomy, and not permanently, so when I flash on a concept I haven't thought of since then, I get a special sensation, and I can write down the date and time to the minute. Then I can say exactly how long after the amnestic torture began that concept was censored (for another example, Christianity was also completely censored), so just reply with how much you want to bet on it being true, I dare you to make me a bet, make it worth my while. At any rate, it's the Sapir-Whorf law.

So in order to get people to forget what their spine thinks about hot water, media blackout. No jokes like that anymore, Simpson characters never got burned in the shower after 93, (I think there was one in the 89-92 period because in my memories Homer is drawn the old way and screams like the early voice actors, never again), no scalding anywhere, ever. Showers became these heavenly places, like really soothing and perfect, nothing bad ever happened in there, in prisons nothing bad could happen in a shower except the obligatory rape but rape notwithstanding they always had better showers in every goddamn prison on television than every five-star hotel I've ever gone to. And people always singing in the shower, in prison too. They gave showers a lot of extra airtime with no jokes, for decades. And nobody ever waiting for the temperature of the shower to adjust before getting in, nobody ever gets into a shower, only out of one. And media absolutely had the incestuousness to carry this out in the 90s and today it very much still does. There's tons of media blackouts. All to make a wonderful righteous old woman with the gall to sue a MacDonald's, with perfect moral authority, for a meaningless amount MacDonald's always lied about in its love of being a bitchvictim (they always said one million dollars instead of the amount she sued for and received, $600,000, without fail), to make that American saint look like a total greedy bitch for retaliating against a company she should have recognized as having the right to spite her. They spited her. And she died of shame.

[1] Although in fairness, out of the desire my torturer does not share, of being accurate and fair in my accusations, "scald" was...I think forgotten for other reasons, it's just a really rare word...or was it blacked out? Gotta check my notes, I thought it wasn't when I started writing this footnote but now who knows.

Can you say which one? Asking for a friend that's me.

You lost purchasing power...

> With how the economics of the next couple of years looks like, I'm pretty stressed out.

The only solution is to find another buyer for your labor.