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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke 57 points 9 months ago (12 children)

"Everything is very expensive, and people can't save money"

FTFY

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

Its a curious state of affairs, because the stock market has been booming all the while.

If you have savings you're getting enormous passive incomes. 20-30% jumps in accumulated investments annually. If you don't have savings you're watching prices skyrocket while salaries flat-line in the face of anti-inflation economic policy.

This does kinda raise the question "Where are equities markets getting all this extra cash from?" And the answer appears to be... its very profitable to charge people more and pay them less.

[–] itsnotits 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)
  • It's* a curious state of affairs
  • it's* very profitable
[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Literally nobody was confused by those grammatical mistakes, this is just a stupid grammatical rule designed to be a gotcha that grammar people can wield as proof that someone isn’t well educated.

Put the apostrophe wherever the hell you want, just write in a clear way that gives enough context that unless someone is a computer program incapable of tolerating slight grammatical mistakes they will understand fine.

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