I’ve started buying things I don’t need, but the problem is right now my weekly wage shows no sign of increasing, and the value of things I buy is increasing. I feel like it’s unavoidable; soon we will have to do without most of the luxuries we used to take for granted. The upshot is I’m leveraged up to my eyes in debt, yes, my debt is the best thing about me
see, because rising inflation means wages WILL rise, or costs will decrease, and either way I can either pay off my debt more easily, or my take home pay will go further, that’s the optimistic outlook anyway.
the fear is we will tip into recession… and I don’t know what. I’ve lived through two recessions in my 15 year working life, I’m not sure how I can weather a third one. The reality is passing homeless people on the street, I realize that I’m probably going to be them in the near future. Upshot; with no appreciable assets, there will be no value in lawful obedience anymore, so the kinds of crime I might come into will be complex and potentially highly profitable.
out of all the vultures, I might be the fat one, is in essence the pitch right now. Other people are going to suffer, people I care about are going to suffer, and at this point it feels as though there is nothing I can do about it.