Inflation

I was wondering the same, was this that same poster. I’m fairly well paid and a few perks of my job but Christ I don’t need to go around announcing them publicly. Very much read like a rub salt in the wounds type post to me too. People are really struggling and by the grace of god it’s not one of us. You never know whats around the corner- redundancy, Ill health, major crisis or accident.

Speaking of inflation and the endless efforts our “government” go to to make it even worse, was the increase in carbon taxes passed on, in may I think it was planned for?

Their cronies in the media have this remarkable knack of burying bad news for them.

Can't get drivers either. Have heard of retired lads being contacted to come back. Even here deliveries that would have been guaranteed within a week are no more, truck wont go certain directions unless its full. Sales reps starting to reappear again but with prices the way they are people aren't budging so things will grind to a halt with expensive supplies still in the system that need shifting someone is going to have to take the hit.

A hell of a lot of energy is required to make concrete Timmy, that will be one of the biggest reasons for it going up as well as other elements that are used to make it.

I'm in final stages of building a house at the moment myself. Got a quote for range materials 2 months ago. Didnt move on it due to not being at the stage for needing it. (No way storing it on site)

It's gone up by over a 1000e since so inflation is hitting bad. (Its either that or a lot of gouging going on)

If this keeps going the country will be in a fine state.

Think the muppets in the dail are oblivious or just dont give a shite at this stage.

Anyone watching Prime Time last night will see we ain't seen nothing yet with regard to food price increases.....

...and irelands response, lets remain exposed to international fossil fuel markets, by building more gas fired power stations, scary stuff!

...again, covid supports such as pup and ewss were removed too quickly, it was clearly obvious what was unfolding at the beginning of the year, removing these supports has deeply exposed large parts of our economies, many businesses simply cant step up to these pay demands and requirements, they simply wont survive, potentially causing wide scale unemployment problems!

true, but the bulk of this money was also spent into the economy, are will at least eventually be, it has once again reopened the debates on polices such as a ubi. id argue, simply giving people money to spend actually just worked, as this is exactly what occurred, and in return it kept many businesses open, and even created some jobs a long the way! its also important to remember, theres effectively no such thing as free money, as these polices were funded by deficit spending, i.e. debt, as still is the case, all money is created by debt, i.e. its debt that sits on some ones books somewhere, either in the public or private domain, in this case, the public domain, i.e. its not free at all, as it must be serviced and repaid!

...or maybe we have spent so long suppressing labour markets, people have simply had enough!

...we must also start admitting to ourselves, many businesses only exist due to the protective measures in place, from state protection to institutional protections, and beyond, we really have to grow up and accept this reality, large corporations are potentially the most protected sectors on the planet, theres plenty of evidence to support this....

how far do we want to play this game of 'survival of the fittest', in regards businesses, do we keep doing so until we are no longer capable of providing ourselves with all of our most critical of needs!

...it really is time for us to grow up!

its over regulated- these are a big strain on production