The British Retail Consortium's quick data on January #retail sales confirms that as sales growth (of 1.2%) continues to lag #inflation (4%) we continue to see a squeeze/decline on sales volumes;
as this indicates, the #costofloivingcrisis (or as I prefer the crisis of #enforcedpoverty) is still driving down actual spending power for individuals.
We are still buying less, although spending more on what we do buy.
For consumers, this is what #recession looks like, whatever the formal GDP data
Told my mom I was taking all the Christmas stuff down yesterday. She scoffed & said I’d have a year of bad luck if I did. After 4 yrs of pandemic people still believe supernatural crap. If anything these last few years have taught me; there’s no aliens, no Bigfoot, no ghosts & no God. Call me cynical but if it hasn’t been proven by science, I don’t want to hear about it. #cynic#NonBeliever#Science
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10 amazing metal albums that were too ahead of their time
From Black Sabbath’s debut album to Cynic’s Focus, these metal masterpieces were either lambasted or ignored when they first came out
@IAmDannyBoling I'm not sure that means what you think it means. Plato's Greece was not a democracy of all adults but of elite men. Not for nothing did Diogenes wander around the marketplace with a lantern "looking for a human being".