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Fred learns how renting works

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The flintstones comic run from 2016 was hugely anti-capitalist. Highly recommend reading it if you haven't.

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- There was also other contemporary issues like immigration and job security. Racism as a cause of the immigration of Neanderthals, etc.
  
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  I vaguely remember the Flintstones cartoon (or maybe the Jetsons?) having an episode that addressed racism/tolerance as well. Something about "new neighbors moving in" and finding common ground.
  
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- Mark Russell's Wonder Twins series was fantastic, too.
  
  I'm not even big into comics, but his are definitely worth a read.
  
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Inflation is when rich people think you've got money you're not handing over.

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- This is not what inflation is. Inflation is bad for rich people because the value of their wealth hoards decreases, but what this actually is (wildly increasing rent and prices of groceries) is just (legal) profiteering if anything.
  
  Edit: it appears I was mistaken. Please disregard this post.
  
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  Rich people aren’t just hoarding money in a bank like Scruge Mcduck, unless they’re not very smart. If most of their money was tied into bank bonds that didn’t out perform inflation, then it’s bad for them. But if it’s tied to business stock or ownership, then those stocks are now worth more money for one to be willing to give up that stock. Inflation benefits some types and hurts others.
  
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  Rich people do not hoard cash. Their assets appreciate as more profit is realized from the inflation (which is always accompanied by, and often caused by, price gouging). Line go up. They win every time.
  
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Damn he's yolked, what the fuck.

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- Literally a cave man who breaks rocks for a living.
  
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  True and valid. It's just that they made him such a schlub I'm the TV show. This Fred Flintstone seems like he could go toe to toe with a superhero.
  
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  He drives a dinosaur though
  
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- Next frame is him giving the landlord the BAM BAM
  
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  He gave the landlord his best friends adopted son for rent? Oh the humanity.
  
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  Well he's yoked cuz he's plowing but yolked cuz he's swole
  
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So what you're saying is raises are bad.

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(not just) Dublin landlords.

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Ricardo's Law of Rent

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