• EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    And everyone is bitching about the state of the economy now. You think it would have been better off if we had extended even longer the conditions that led to the inflation?

    • triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago
      1. yes that’s exactly the evidence from the 1918 flu pandemic showed: places which locked down harder and longer had quicker economic recovery. This is probably even more the case with COVID which is leaving people longterm, if not lifetime, disabled.

      2. the documented reason for recent inflation in the US is corporate greed, the only thing COVID did was give corporate execs an excuse

    • Yggnar@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      The inflation we have experienced since 2020 is almost exclusively due to corporate greed.