Excuseflation

Monopolists will never let a good emergency go to waste.

The decision to pass modest sums out to working people to prevent them from starving or losing their homes during the covid lockdowns made the right furious, especially inflation hawks who insist that any improvement in everyday people’s material lives will transform America into an amateur revival of Weimar, complete with wheelbarrows full of useless bank-notes.

“Democrats” like Larry Summers — a Clintonite ghoul who is on record as saying that women are biologically incapable of doing science — insisted that preserving workers’ living standards was a terrible mistake, only prolonging the inevitable day when they would be shoveled into the furnace that keeps The Economy running.

And indeed, the lockdowns were followed by a series of price rises. Some of these were obviously the result of capacity problems:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/01/factories-to-condos-pipeline/#stuff-not-money

Cars got more expensive because panicked car executives canceled their microchip orders. That’s a problem, because they redesigned our cars to be mobile surveillance platforms stuffed full of anti-repair digital locks, which means that cars need dozens of chips just to function: