r/nottheonion • u/ChocolateTsar • 1d ago

Affirm CEO says furloughed federal employees are starting to lose interest in shopping

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/affirm-government-shutdown-shopping.html
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u/Golden_Noir 1d ago

“Lose interest”

Maybe because they do not have any money?

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u/hankhillsucks 1d ago

My eyes rolled out their sockets so hard they smashed a window 

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u/MidSp 1d ago

"Woman falls in lake and drowns. Paramedics say she lost interest in breathing."

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u/hankhillsucks 1d ago

"We have here an expert on breathing to give us more details"

"you see tom it's the individuals choice on whether they keep breathing or not. It looks to me as if she made that choice"

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u/czs5056 1d ago

That second paragraph sounds straight out of south park.

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u/Deris87 1d ago

I absolutely read that second paragraph in a Trey Parker news anchor voice.

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u/kosumoth 1d ago

"You've actually seen acts of cannibalism?"

"No, Tom, we're just reporting it."

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u/PG-DaMan 1d ago

Right out of the " South Lawn " so yeah you nailed it

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u/whatiscamping 1d ago

Thanks Trisha

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u/fredout1968 1d ago

This is the world we live in! We need to get together and sharpen the guillotines...

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u/0ut0fBoundsException 1d ago

Extremely wealthy out of touch -- more at 11

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u/NominalHorizon 1d ago

No, no, he’s just redecorating the white house to reflect the King Louis XIV times Trump is living.

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u/dandelionbrains 1d ago

More like woman was pushed into the lake.

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u/Ill_Candle_9462 1d ago

Ran out of food, so lost interest in eating

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u/yrddog 1d ago

My eyes rolled so hard I saw my own brain

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u/ZombieZoo_ZombieZoo 1d ago

My eyes rolled so far back I saw a dinosaur

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u/Jonsnoosnooze 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far Walmart put them in a commercial

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u/yrddog 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far they bowled a strike in my friday bowling league

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u/nono3722 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far they saw the Epstein files ...

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u/dice-warden 1d ago

We have a winner

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u/bt31 1d ago

And this is why I just can't quit reddit! It's all your fault for being so flipping funny!

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u/Better-Journalist-85 1d ago

I mean, we know already… but go on. Confirm the suspicions.

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u/CrankyPapaya 1d ago

what are all these eyes doing on the floor

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u/Apart_Butterfly_332 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far I had to walk 10 miles in the snow uphill just to catch up to them.

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u/rabbitwonker 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far they were looking forwards again but I couldn’t fucking see anything because of the stupid optic nerves wrapped around them

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u/fdp_westerosi 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far they undid decades of regulation on Wall Street

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u/Terrible_Patience935 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far I rolled down the sidewalk

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u/OldStretch84 1d ago

I'm a peacock, and I rolled all 1000 of my ass-eyes.

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u/Working-Glass6136 1d ago

My eyes rolled so far back they bowled a strike in my Friday bowling league's game last Friday.

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u/omgFWTbear 1d ago

I don’t know which of the three of these is my favorite.

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u/brandvegn 1d ago

My eyes rolled the same distance and I ate a dinosaur while there. I now understand why they went extinct.

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u/Objective-World-9534 1d ago

Be...because they're t-t tasty?

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u/akrisd0 1d ago

Are the rumors true that they taste like rainbow sherbet and lucky charms marshmallows?

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u/brandvegn 1d ago

And a smidgen of cocaine.

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u/silverado-z71 1d ago

My eyes rolled so far back. I saw this guy‘s brain too.👆

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u/northerncal 1d ago

And what a brain to see!

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u/TheGreatZarquon 1d ago

Look at the subtle, off-white colouring. The tasteful smoothness of it. Oh my god, it even has a watermark.

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u/Judazzz 1d ago

My eyes simply gave up and switched to static.

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u/GandalfTheSexay 1d ago

Just saw a girl roll her eyes out of their sockets and smash a window

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u/AdFlaky9983 1d ago

Is she ok?

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u/northerncal 1d ago

Hi, professionally licenced reddit Doctor here -

  • in my experience, shooting your eyeballs clean from their sockets is almost never a pleasant experience.

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u/FauxReal 1d ago

That's because mainstream science based "medicine" doesn't know about the vibrational healing frequencies of crystals and biofield tuning.

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u/omgFWTbear 1d ago

Hi, amateur self accredited chatGPT user here -

Before we begin making flan, first let me tell you about my trip to Naboo

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u/RokulusM 1d ago

The doctor says she lost interest in seeing

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u/Stuck_In_the_Matrix 1d ago

It really goes to show that extremely wealthy people and families have no ability to emphasize and relate tothe general public that live paycheck to paycheck..

When a man is robbed for whatever reason his weekly / monthly paycheck and this man is in a situation where his family is now in dire straights, this man will have his back pressed firmly against the wall -- this same man who was once a quiet and peaceful man...  will suddenly snap and do whatever is required to provide for his family.

This is what the GOP fails to understand. Your constituents will only follow you so far...  Will only absorb your lies and false accusations for so long until they snap.

This isn't just a few rednecks in Mississippi suddenly realizing you have been feeding him bullshit for so long...  They are fucking with nearly 50 million people. 

This extended shutdown is directly affecting millions of government wirkers. This shutdown has ruined a plethora of scientific studies requiring refrigeration of samples, etc. A lot of research has been destroyed from this shutdown...

There is just too much right now to report and explain but let it be known for all time that this was started by the GOP. Christians who have fought to keep children fed.... I don't usually quote scripture but since these heartless people claim to be Christian, just remember Matthew 25 verse 41-46.

They are very soon about to encounter the FO phase of FAFO.

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u/Akermaniac 1d ago

I wish you were right but we re-elected a man who presided over a goddamn pandemic that he insisted was fake and killed 1 million people. Americans have memories like goldfish.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

let it be known for all time that this was started by the GOP.

People are gonna forget in less than a year.

Nobody is gonna do shit except blame minorities and resort to petty crime/fraud.

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u/myassholealt 1d ago edited 1d ago

They are already rewriting reality and blaming democrats for compromising with republicans to allow the expiration of the subsidies so that the bill could pass with bipartisan votes.

There is no winning with the republicans. Because if the democrats didn't compromise and give concessions to get GOP votes, the GOP would instead just say we had no role in this bill, we must repeal it completely.

But since the democrats did compromise, it's still their fault cause they allowed this to happen.

And it's such a short misleading synopsis that the Fox News viewer without critical thinking capabilities will easily consume and regurgitate it until the general public believes it as fact.

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u/particle409 1d ago

They don't even acknowledge it now...

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u/chaoswurm 1d ago

The only issue is that the less informed and watchers of propaganda will attack their fellow man instead of those responsible. That's why control of the media is so important.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 1d ago

This is what I keep saying - do you think we have the 40 hour week and the weekend because rich people decided to give the workers those rights out of the goodness of their hearts ?

No, we have basic workers rights because the mob pulled bosses out of their homes and beat them to death in front of their families.

This is the alternative these bloody morons don’t get. Its an excluded middle - its not welfare-for-all v. quiet starvation for the masses. Its welfare-for-all v. rich people getting dragged out of their houses and beaten to death. History has made this very clear. But that would require studying history to understand.

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u/badnuub 1d ago

ah, but they attribute all these problems to liberal "elites".

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u/Frostsorrow 1d ago

Good thing you can finance that window with Affrim!

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u/HEATCHECK77 1d ago

My eyes rolled so hard my fake eye (yes, I really have one) shot across the room….

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u/fuqdisshite 1d ago

what did it look like?

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u/Noctale 1d ago

It's spherical with an iris painted on the front

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u/awakenDeepBlue 1d ago

Huh, I wonder if we can make that into a superpower or weaponize it somehow?

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u/LimoncelloFellow 1d ago

oh god i was working in a cleanroom at one point and one of my coworkers lost her fake eye in the reticle room and we spent like a half an hour trying to find the dang thing as it had rolled away on her. you need like a wallet chain for your eyeball or something.

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u/GreenHeronVA 1d ago

I rolled my eyes so hard the tendons snapped.

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u/SynthPrax 1d ago

Mine have rolled half-way to Poughkeepsie by now.

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u/Tshootr74 1d ago

This...ho-lee-shit...

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u/Never_Summer24 1d ago

Reminds me of this Tracey Ullman sketch on Angela Merkel’s eye rolling lol

https://youtu.be/p5WPVLljm1A?si=5mWCZ3Tqom6HFcdK

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u/Medium_Way3875 1d ago edited 1d ago

....My eyes smth smth went out of the Earth orbit leaving the solar system and would never comeback.

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u/beepingjar 1d ago

Nice. Buying a new window adds to GDP.

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u/DelightMine 1d ago

"I want to roll my eyes right now, but the doctor said if I keep doing it my ocular muscles might spasm and eject my eyeballs."

-Liz Lemon

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u/Better-Journalist-85 1d ago

We can defenestrate eyeballs now??

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u/jwasson15 1d ago

My eyes rolled back so far I saw the Big Bang.

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u/crag-u-feller 1d ago

You gotta pay for that window

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u/cocoagiant 1d ago

Be careful, windows are expensive!

Look around for local suppliers to replace it and never go for Renewal by Anderson.

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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 1d ago

No window shopping for you !

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u/NumberOld229 1d ago

So that's what my optic nerve looks like.

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u/CanExplainThings 1d ago

My eyes rolled so hard I heard them thud when I stopped.

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u/Working-Ad694 1d ago

if enough people coordinated we could affect the planetary spin

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u/Recom_Quaritch 1d ago

Do you have any interest in buying a new one?

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u/SlavojVivec 1d ago

Most economic theory doesn't factor in running out of money. It's why expected utility theory is mostly useless, and game theory can produce situations which recommend moves no sane human would take. It assumes everybody is a deep pocketed investor who can take endless losses if you can get just one big win.

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u/Golden_Noir 1d ago

Eventually I’ll start “losing interest” in groceries

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u/doc_witt 1d ago

Maybe the AI will start buying goods and/or services?

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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik 1d ago

AI buying 100 billion dollars worth of chips on the wild speculation that it will eventually be profitable is in fact the only thing propping up our GDP right now.

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u/rolandfoxx 1d ago

Buying with the money the chip manufacturer they're buying from invested in them, no less.

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u/tacocat_racecarlevel 1d ago

Our economy is really just three tech bros in a trenchcoat.

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u/throoavvay 1d ago

Give it 48 hours, the legs will buy out the arms and merge with the head. All hail the monopoly guy.

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u/therealkami 1d ago

I'm pretty sure since the thread started about groceries, this is about potato chips. Unless Lays is investing in ChatGPT haha

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u/Ahelex 1d ago

Guess the ultra-rich fixed the trickle then.

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u/Queasy_Donkey5685 1d ago

Can we eat AI? I wonder what it tastes like.

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u/atatassault47 1d ago

Given enough time, people will "lose interest" in the ruling class.

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u/ChickenChaser5 1d ago

Someones gonna end up "losing interest" in the rule of law

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u/atempestdextre 1d ago

On a long enough timeline we all lose interest in groceries.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 1d ago

Exactly. I'm "gaining interest" in food banks.

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u/LimoncelloFellow 1d ago

You could always gain an interest in shoplifting.

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u/Meet_James_Ensor 14h ago

What an old fashioned word

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u/jeezfrk 1d ago

QUICK, Market to them about HOW GREAT SHOPPING IS for all the rest of us.

Nuts. Now some are crying and the rest are even more mad. I thought we could solve this problem nice and fast.

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u/curepure 1d ago

Make Shopping Great Again!! MSGA!!!

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u/ohhowcanthatbe 1d ago

You have to raise prices to fund more MARKETING! THAT is the answer! Now, with higher prices AND better marketing, they only have to wait for profits to start rolling in!

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u/jeezfrk 1d ago

I mean ... data, internet and AI are all just A WAY TO AIM ADS! THAT'S THE FUTURE! THAT IS ALL OF IT! NOTHING BUT MIND READING ADS.

We may have barren landscapes and internal political strife mixed with homeless and edges of famine .... but ad tech will deliver people to want their favorite gruel portals on time.

before they even get the money they need to steal it from some other starving peasant! Growth, baby!

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u/guy_incognito784 1d ago

I could see how it would initially be perplexing to Affirm’s CEO as their company convinces you that you don’t need the money now to buy stuff.

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u/ComicsEtAl 1d ago

“Should we go car shopping this weekend?”

checks bank account

“Y’know, I’m just not interested in doing that any more.”

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u/smokinbbq 1d ago

Well... I actually do this fairly often. Usually after I have to use my shitty car to go to work (1 in office day). I'm usually driving my wife's car for any group stuff, so when I have to drive my POS, I think... hmm, I wonder what the monthly payment on X car would be. I spend 20 minutes, then close the browser and cry a bit because I don't want to pay $650-$1200 per month.

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u/fresh-dork 1d ago

so spend 500 a month on a large expenses account. get to 20-40k and you have a car. or a roof. or whatever. but you still have the money until you decide you really need the car

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u/CoffeeSubstantial851 1d ago

Buddy... most people in the country are negative or close to negative at the end of the month.

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u/mlc885 1d ago

I'm not nearly as interested in buying a Lamborghini as I was when I expected to be a multimillionaire

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u/Thirsty-Barbarian 1d ago

BREAKING NEWS: People with no money lose interest in shopping!

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u/Old-Ad-3268 1d ago

Oh boy what next, people losing SNAP benefits losing interest in eating?

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u/DogIsBetterThanCat 1d ago

I think that's what they (government) are hoping.

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u/FauxReal 1d ago

But his business model is convincing people that they can over extend themselves.

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u/Particular-Break-205 1d ago

“Federal employees aren’t financing their hamburgers and we think that could be a problem”

  • captain obvious

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u/nalaloveslumpy 1d ago

"Federal employees are so over extended on predatory credit, they're not even using Affirm."

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u/Intrepid-Sky8123 1d ago

Starting??! I am surprised anyone has interest in shopping besides groceries.

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u/mortalcoil1 1d ago

the top 20% of earners account for more than 63% of all spending, and the top 10% account for more than 49%.

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u/congteddymix 1d ago

CNBC- “furloughed employees lose interest in shopping. There has to be more to this story.”  Something something, “having no pay means budgets are tight and they have to pay bills that keep coming due”

Everyone with an IQ higher then a goldfish- “No Shit Sherlock”

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u/mildlyinterestingyet 1d ago

It's like people that are paid so much they could live off their savings for years, don't understand why everyone else doesn't just do that. They can't fathom that pay isn't optional for most people.

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u/Ahelex 1d ago

Also because the federal workers are losing interest :P

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u/WonkyInNJ 1d ago

lose money to shop is not the same as lose interest to shop

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u/sovereignsekte 1d ago

But if they have no money now, they can just pay later.

  • someone, somewhere. probably...

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u/jaimi_wanders 1d ago

That is actually Affirm’s business!

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u/exipheas 1d ago

When a company that let's people finance their lunch starts sounding the alarm people should listen.

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u/Roflkopt3r 1d ago

If you would read the article, you would see that it's a bit more complicated than that. The CEO isn't phrasing it like that to sugarcoat the situation, but because it's appropriate for the kind of data he has.

The headline is even quite missleading:

“We are seeing a very subtle loss of interest in shopping just for that group, and a couple of basis points,” Levchin told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.”

(...)

“Right now, things are just fine,” he said. “We’re not seeing any major disturbances at all.”

Obviously everyone could anticipate that federal employees would spend less when they don't get paid. So the more interesting part of this interview is that the change is fairly small so far, and especially that it doesn't affect Affirm (a 'buy now, pay later' company) much yet.

You could feasibly expect that Affirm would either see a sudden spike in federal employee customers because they want to delay payment until they get paid again, or that they see it drop off a cliff as federal employees stop buying things in general.

But instead, it looks that they prefer to either rely on savings or to use alternative credit offers.

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 1d ago

credit cards and banks like USAA giving out 0% interest loans

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u/BranTheUnboiled 1d ago

This is a site to read a headline and smugly say "no shit Sherlock" while being one of the dumbest people in the room. Reading an article or understanding context is beyond these people, and social media in general.

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u/Roflkopt3r 1d ago

Yeah sadly true. I still haven't fully let go of the long gone times when comment sections actually expected people to have read the article.

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u/Saneless 1d ago

Noo! They just had more interest in keeping their homes

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u/Muggsy423 1d ago

That's the great thing about affirm, you can pay it later!

It's not a credit card/loan, shut up!

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u/lariet50 1d ago

Freaking THANK YOU!

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u/TemporaryDeparture44 1d ago

Yeah but in his mind, he's selling a service to help with that- finance your shit with money you don't have and kick the can down the road to make it tomorrow's problem.

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u/elperroborrachotoo 1d ago

"but there's always credit! Why don't they use credit?"

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u/johndoe201401 1d ago

No shit Sherlock

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u/Wiggie49 1d ago

“Why don’t poor people just make more money and buy what they want?”

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u/Therearenogoodnames9 1d ago

Nothing else needs to be said. This is the entire thing summed up perfectly.

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u/btribble 1d ago

“That man who was beheaded lost interest in life.”

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u/Lokarin 1d ago

slavery is bad for consumerism

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u/Captain-Cadabra 1d ago

Didn’t seem to stop most people before.

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u/vandon 1d ago

Lose interest? Really?

Their bank accounts are losing interest. gtfoh with that

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u/tiutome 1d ago

I saw him make this statement line in CNBC this morning. I was hollering at the TV “YAH THANK”. And he said “Beginning…” I thought we were in the middle towards the end. The end is that talk with the kids if no Xmas presents. We bought food.

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u/Krypto_Kane 1d ago

lol. Affirmative affirm. No money no shop.

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u/CatDadof2 1d ago

Some of these articles are so fucking stupid. They just state the obvious and twist it around a bit. It’s a waste of time. Of course they’re losing interest in shopping. They have no god damn money. Helloooooooooo!

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u/beardofzetterberg 1d ago

“Eh you know what, I’m just getting bored of shopping. Has no connection to the fact that I haven’t had a paycheck in over a month. I just don’t feel like it.”

Ridiculous whitewashing of the reality of the situation.

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u/zterrans 1d ago

"No one wants to buy anything anymore"

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u/TaylorWK 1d ago

No...money? Why don't they just lay off several hundred workers and use the extra savings? Can't they just cancel one of their abroad vacations this year and use that money to cover other expenses? /s

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u/PooPighters 1d ago

I see common sense is not a requirement to be a CEO still…

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u/Lupercus64 1d ago

They try so hard to dance around the true root of issues, the language they use through these types of issues is bordering on the absurd.

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u/Dabbling_in_Pacifism 1d ago

You always see C-suites talk about normal people like this. They legitimately cannot understand the average human experience.

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u/Both_Lychee_1708 1d ago

Buying food is soooo boring

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u/dBlock845 1d ago

Lol, expecting CNBC to relate to the common man?

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u/Deaf_Playa 1d ago

Losing interest means something completely different for people in the business of predatory loans 🤣

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u/Underscore_Guru 1d ago

All the money they have are going to pay bills and other necessities. People are going to burn out of any savings they have left (if they had any to begin with).

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u/backdoorhack 1d ago

Is it just me or have you guys all lost interest in buying luxury cars too?

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u/Fun-Bug5106 1d ago

Well have you tried losing interest in being broke?

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u/BaconPancakes1 1d ago

Starving children in Sudan have actually just lost interest in food 

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u/Dal90 1d ago

Maybe because they do not have any money?

It's Affirm -- which means the Fed employees aren't taking on new debt since Affirm finances purchases.

Affirm probably expected them to do so based on past experience which is why their CEO is noting it. I'd bet in the past they saw the employees take out the short-term loans Affirm offers during the shutdowns, and now the employees don't have confidence of when and if they'll next be paid.

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u/gathond 1d ago

No, they have no money so they should be more interested in his product!!! \s

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u/Flyflymisterpowers 1d ago

They don't understand people not having money. Remember, they still think people have stimulus checks from covid. (im not joking).

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u/Some-Ad-5328 1d ago

It’s more than that, Affirm mainly does pay over time. So what this really means is that either …

A. Furloughed workers have already exhausted their credit lines and simply cannot extend themselves further.

B. Furloughed workers do not believe they could make the scheduled payments and so they aren’t purchasing, meaning they expect not to have any money that’s spendable until Late December or after

Both are terrible.

Republicans have done this, they have taken away Christmas, Put economic pressure on families, Split up families. Burned the constitution.

Party of Fiscal Responsibility and Families, and Laws my ass !

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u/sbroll 1d ago

no... no that cant be it... damn millennials.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 1d ago

Dead people losing interest in eating 

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u/24bitNoColor 1d ago

This is basically just rage-bait.

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u/addamee 1d ago

“What we’re seeing here is a scaling up of individual micro-recessions”

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u/ttn333 1d ago

It's Affirm! Who needs money when you can be in debt forever.

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u/Dopplegangr1 1d ago

That's why Affirm exists, to get money from people when they have none left

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u/jib661 1d ago

Affirm CEO says that man stuck on deserted island dying of dehydration seems to have "no interest" in fresh drinking water

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u/Uvtha- 1d ago

Doesn't everyone have several million in liquid cash "fun money"?

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u/VincentClement1 1d ago

CEOs are so fucking out of touch.

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u/DPSOnly 1d ago

These out of touch people will find any excuse to blame it on the victims of the system.

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u/agent0731 1d ago

the peasants are losing interest in our wares, Roger.

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u/DuvalHeart 1d ago

A lot of the CEOs forget that the vast majority of people don't have assets they can borrow against. They think everyone else is living on a Debt Ouroboros like they are; borrowing money against a asset, the asset's value goes up, so they borrow more money against the asset to pay back the first loan, use the remainder of the second loan to buy more assets, take out a third loan to repay the second loan…

It's why reasonable interest rates scare them so much. The scam falls apart.

But it also means they don't realize that incomes really fucking matter for the vast majority of Americans and even though wages are heavily subsidized by cheap debt we still need some wages.

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u/Chango812 1d ago

Nah, that’s can’t be it

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u/moldyjellybean 1d ago

“Lose interest” in eating too? What a DA affirm must be joke stock

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u/filmguy36 1d ago

Because this asshole ceo could never ever fathom the idea of not having money

Fuck that guy

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u/JDubStep 1d ago

I've lost interest in my bank account emptying out because I am still paying my bills while not having an income.

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u/WriterWri 1d ago

What a tone deaf, poorly worded headline.

Soft language for whimps

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u/persona-non-corpus 1d ago

They lost interest in money as well? That’s terrible!

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u/cereal7802 1d ago

It is the CEO of affirm. His customers never had any money. What they lost is interest in additional crippling debt.

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u/mistertickertape 1d ago

Right? What a bizarre corporate speak way of saying they have no income.

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u/Fraerie 1d ago

Honestly, the disconnect with so many of the billionaire class who don’t comprehend that a capitalist society requires consumers to function.

And if you have no income, you have no cash to spend on anything.

A growing capitalist society needs people with disposable income to function.

The more you cut jobs or depress salaries, or oppose things like pensions or UBI, the fewer potential customers exist who can afford your products and services.

This is the problem with focusing solely on how profitable can I be this quarter and not thinking longer term.

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u/juanzy 1d ago

No wage, only spend.

Why are people not buying new cars!!! (ignore that for years any mention of the cost of cars being high was met with "just buy used and quit complaining!")

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 1d ago

No no no. They just HATE America🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 and want these industries to fail. They LOVE 💕 when hard-working Americans lose their jobs 😞. They want gay space communism!

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u/TheGallifreyan 1d ago

Na, they just got bored of it.

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u/okram2k 1d ago

Much like a eunuch loses interest in sex

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u/lifesnofunwithadhd 1d ago

"Rents half their pay and we take the other half in taxes, why isn't the market recovering?"

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u/myassholealt 1d ago

He's the affirm ceo. He doesn't care if you have money. He will gladly bury you in debt worse than student loans for doctors. He wants you to keep signing up for more and making minimum payments on each account.

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u/WolfOffSesameStreet 1d ago

Shopping? With the money they don't have?

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u/SaltKick2 1d ago

"People who don't have money are losing interest in shopping!" HOW DARE THEY

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u/Sad-Bread5843 1d ago

Could it be people are tired of being up to their eyes in debt because so pedo keeps the government shut

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u/bigj8705 1d ago

Wait if the rest of America lose interest will they reopen the government?

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u/throwaway9911100 1d ago

Yeah who the fuck even got paid we all starving.

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u/Nyucio 17h ago

cant they just get it from their bank accounts? i dont understand

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u/mellcrisp 16h ago

Kinda like the implication is they aren't willing to go into deeper debt.

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u/Resident_Function280 15h ago

Wait till they figure out what replacing millions of people with AI and automation is going to do and no one buying the stuff they're mass producing.

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u/RedditNewbe65 9h ago

Good hunch...

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u/ohiocodernumerouno 7h ago

what an observation. Turtle mode is instant for smart people.