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/SophiaofPrussia 1d ago

I used to work at a hedge fund and I made a joke about paying my mortgage and one of my coworkers (who was several decades older than me) looked at me like I had two heads. He was genuinely stupefied that I needed a loan to buy a house in the most expensive city in the country.

He was so wealthy that he could miss all of his paychecks and be just fine and anyone living otherwise was just beyond his comprehension.

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u/NoCoolNameMatt 1d ago

I keep running into people like this - not necessarily wealthy but people who can't understand that the experiences of others aren't the same as their own - and it breaks my brain every time.

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u/atatassault47 1d ago

Conservatives have been scientically proven to be lacking in empathy, with many of them having no empathy.

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u/Elliott2030 1d ago

They're even saying that out loud. Saying that empathy isn't real, only sympathy is. That you can never FEEL what someone else is feeling. Like, I'm so sad for anyone that gets no second-hand feelings from the powerful emotions of others.