This week's comic: The Listeria League
#food #foodsafety #health #fda #publichealth #consumers #cartoon #comic
"why don't #techbro execs understand that their consumers don't want #AI in everythin-"
they do. they just don't care, because the broke-ass bottom 90% #consumers have no impact on the #company's stock price. we are all officially too poor to be considered part of the real #economy, and this is how you know.
"why don't #techbro execs understand that their consumers don't want #AI in everythin-"
they do. they just don't care, because the broke-ass bottom 90% #consumers have no impact on the #company's stock price. we are all officially too poor to be considered part of the real #economy, and this is how you know.
This week's comic: The Listeria League
#food #foodsafety #health #fda #publichealth #consumers #cartoon #comic
Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?
https://birchtree.me/blog/are-consumers-just-tech-debt-to-microsoft/
#HackerNews #Are #consumers #just #tech #debt #to #Microsoft? #techdebt #Microsoft #consumers #technology #blog
“But the policies they’ve chosen have created extra costs for businesses, & businesses tend to pass on costs,” Sahm added.
The cost of #Trump’s policies is likely to increase in the coming months.
His most inflationary policy is his campaign to build a wall of #tariffs around the US #economy. Tariffs are #taxes on imports, & they are *initially* paid by the businesses that bring goods into the #US.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession
In the early months of #Trump’s term, importers mostly absorbed those #costs rather than raising #prices to recoup the money from #consumers. Some companies said they were waiting to see if the #tariffs would last. As time has passed, companies increasingly have shifted the costs of the tariffs to their customers. Goldman Sachs estimates that the share of tariff costs borne by consumers has increased from 22% in April to 55% in Oct, & that it will continue to rise, reaching 67% by mid next year.
This week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.
This week's comic is about how easily conventional wisdom gets turned on its head by bad faith actors, especially in a media environment lacking responsible editors.
The end of the rip-off economy: consumers use LLMs against information asymmetry
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/10/27/the-end-of-the-rip-off-economy
#HackerNews #endofripoffeconomy #consumers #LLMs #informationasymmetry #finance #innovation
#US #consumer confidence slips to 6-month low; worries over #job availability rising
The Conference Board survey on Tuesday also confirmed what economists describe as a K-shaped #economy, with confidence declining among #consumers making an annual income of <$75,000, but consumers earning >$200,000 a year more upbeat. Economists argue that high-income households are keeping the economy afloat through robust consumer spending.
#Trump #plutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-consumer-confidence-slips-october-worries-over-jobs-persist-2025-10-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#US #consumer confidence slips to 6-month low; worries over #job availability rising
The Conference Board survey on Tuesday also confirmed what economists describe as a K-shaped #economy, with confidence declining among #consumers making an annual income of <$75,000, but consumers earning >$200,000 a year more upbeat. Economists argue that high-income households are keeping the economy afloat through robust consumer spending.
#Trump #plutocracy
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-consumer-confidence-slips-october-worries-over-jobs-persist-2025-10-28/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
Recent comic: Cutting out the Middleman
I suspect that some readers might interpret this cartoon as a call for Luddism, but mostly it's a reflection of thoughts I've been having lately about out-of-control data harvesting and a growing surveillance state.
#tech #technology #privacy #data #comic #cartoon #surveillance #consumers #corporations
