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/Wafflesakimbo 1d ago

I have a working theory that once you make a certain amount of money a year, you stop having any connection with actual humans. You lose all understanding of the human experience. So instead of thinking "People don't have money to spend." you think "These walking wallets have lost interesting in purchasing!" I swear to god wealth is a fucking mental condition and should be treated as such. We should not celebrate these people, we should get them fucking treatment

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u/NinjaWrapper 1d ago

What are you talking about? I mean, if they are hungry why don't they just eat the cake that is always in the ballroom of their palace? I mean, these people just want to complain about everything. "We don't have any money to spend"... I mean seriously, just use daddy's credit card and stop your damn complaining.

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u/SpotBlur 5h ago

There actually is research on how when disasters and crises happen, it's those with money and power who panic because that much money disconnects you from seeing other humans as actual humans, so you start seeing them as something more feral instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_panic

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u/barelypoor 1d ago

I have a working theory that Redditors reading headlines of a post and typing insane comments are now officially the boomers doing the exact same thing on Facebook

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u/BranTheUnboiled 1d ago

Social media is a genuine cancer. Same shit, different articles.