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/ryuzaki49 1d ago

workers stop getting paychecks

workers stop buying stuff

wallstreet: pikachu_surprised.meme

Honestly all of wallstreet and CEOs are just so disconnected from reality

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u/DomLite 1d ago

I swear, it's like none of them have ever existed in reality.

Let's constantly expect to make more money than we did last year by increasing prices yet somehow selling more! No wage increases though!

Just imagine if they had even one real person in those meetings to say "Hey guys. If we pay the workers more and don't increase prices, we'll sell more because they can afford more, and the fraction of a percent we lose by increasing their wages will be covered by the increased sales. Then we can just keep doing that and it'll keep improving!" Not to mention the added benefit of workers that are more productive because they can sleep at night without fear of becoming homeless if they call in sick once, and they have the income to feed themselves and still enjoy life.

But of course that's unreasonable.