What many don't understand is they have been hiding true inflation for many decades in two ways. The first most may kind of understand.
Goods manufactured where cheap slave labor sweat shops cut costs.
The second and mostly unknown is the exporting of the mass money printing that has been taking place. By exporting all these dollars abroad into outside markets it has hidden the real inflation as that money hasn't remained inside the local national economy. In effect diminishing the velocity that one would expect and was demonstrated during the Covid money hand out where a lot of money did stay inside the local economy.
When all that fiat begins traveling back home it will quickly accelerate the already rampant inflation to levels that may closely resemble post WW1 Germanies hyperinflation.
How bad is the inflation there now buddy? I like to have facts from real people not government or media whores.
It's getting pretty bad.
Rents are going up approximately 20-24% from last year.
Bottled water went up 25% from last year.
Gas has went up approximately 83% in the last year.
Electricity has went up locally about 15% in the last year.
I've heard heating oil has almost doubled.
Frighteningly, we are early on in this build back better plan Biden was told to force on us.
And I am out of here, thank you for your support over the years brother, max respect, we had our ups and downs, such is life, thank you for being my friend, just not feeling this place, bit tooooooo much steemit like but blurt this, blurt that gets rewarded more than depth, more than context or research, it is very much based on steemit without the inherent value. Even instablurt unfriended me for reporting the truth lol. Oh well, they can keep their 1 cent site, I will always know for a day I got it to 9 cents, more than them lazy wankers can be bothered to do, never again, that is for sure.
I'm sorry you are leaving. I always felt you would make a good foundation for what is being built here.
As for instablurt, it doesn't surprise me as I believe offgirdlife is the one who mostly curates from that. He has embraced the entire Muh Russia narrative to the point he accuses others who mention there is more than one bad group in this as being brainwashed by Putin, lol. He isn't capable (at this moment) of holding any form of debate on this, so naturally there won't be any curation since he doesn't feel value is added for himself nor Blurt from his estimation on anything not rigidly everything is Putins fault.
He is an enigma, I put him on mute, he is like the opposite of his name, he admitted, he has nothing to do with any form of off grid life, yet calls himself as such, spams this place with low quality low value posts and the foundation are always arguing, now who said downvotes were bad again? I get higher Value votes on hive with less friction, this Utopia is not working, because it likes no, NO CRITICISM and will be stuck at 1 cent forever, I like you, always respected you - but these people that forked this are like Jerry Banfeild, self sucking morons, they need to get real, not just reward anyone that says blurt, that was 2016 you idiots, it failed then, it will fail now!
Yeah, it didn't take me long to stop following him once I saw what he does here.
I'm hopeful you can overlook the value of your posts for now. I wrote a post on how I see this developing yesterday inspired by your comments here to me.
The foundation itself isn't like Banfield in my opinion. I lean more towards many who came first are from impoverished areas and it's up to us to build here what we want. This place is ours for the taking if we commit to it. We won't be censored through flagging, and as more understand one won't be canceled here it will draw more. I've already witnessed it in the time I've been here.
And, the more of us that continue to post truth will be a beacon for others unsure of where they can go without censorship.
I see much potential here, and have watched as some has already materialized.
I hope that you will change your mind and stay. Just because Hive doesn't target you right now doesn't mean they wont. I wasn't targeted much either, but I really grew tired of seeing so many in my circles who were. I got tired of seeing the meltdowns and knew it was time to walk away.
I will stay for you, I will take a few days off, restore a motorbike, plant some seeds, come back fresh, I just needed to say what I said, including my last post, the place needs a shake up, hope I shook it good, yes it has potential - but and a big one, those in the foundation need to stop arguing in public, it never worked on steemit, it will not work here, keep the drama to email or phone calls, not interested in dirty laundry in public.
Thank you :)
I mentioned that to Lucylin about an hour ago in a comment. While I also wish that their approach would have been a little different and not created so much collateral damage I understand they needed to nip what was going on in the bud.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@practicalthought/r9x3w4
Every week the attacks grew by the largest whale in question because he didn't get his way in forcing a code change that would have eroded personal property rights.Personal attacks on one of the co founders who stood up to him when he tried forcing a vote to erode said rights.
I find it honorable that the foundation was willing to take the hit on value for now to let it be clear that Blurt is an advocate for free speech, which includes how one uses their stake.
The co founder in question ignored the attacks for weeks before I assume he realized they were not only not going to stop but continue growing. I do as i said wish that the counter would have been different and stayed with just the one whale and not rope in so many others who were often seen with that whale. Especially since it caused one of two I'm closest to here to power down and leave as well. But I do understand why it was done, and appreciate he chose honoring speech over value. He could have simply caved to the demands to erode our speech.