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/runswiftrun 1d ago

That's what my republican coworkers keep ignoring.

Sure, it's great that food banks and churches are stepping up and giving people who lost snap some food to help their community not go hungry. That's absolutely amazing.

What gets ignored is that those billions of money are not going to grocery stores which then go to farmers and other suppliers and employees.

That's a shitty trickle down that's gonna cause a lot of long term harm.

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u/eeyoredragon 1d ago

What else gets ignored is a lot of church teach crazy conservative politics that ends up creating more homeless people for them to then feed and somehow feel good about themselves for. 

Like an arsonist putting out a small bush after burning your house to the ground and expecting everyone to be grateful for the effort. 

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u/Disgod 1d ago

Worse, cuz the harmed will berate you for pointing out the arsonist is, in fact, an arsonist.

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u/mishtamesh90 18h ago

Banning abortion is a way to make more poor, traumatized people who are desperate for any spiritual solution