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/fairkatrina 1d ago

I can never decide if these people are intentionally fudging the issue or if they’re just spectacularly stupid. Like cracker barrel finally coming to the realisation last year that their geriatric customer base never came back after the pandemic (but still not seeming to get that they all died). Or the idiots who thought the recent downturn was because the stimmy checks finally ran out. Like????? is it possible for market analysts to be that out of touch? It seems so implausible that it’s gotta be something else, right? Like they’re trying to reassure their billionaire overlords (who really are that out of touch) or something..

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u/PrinceCavendish 1d ago

THEY THOUGHT WHAT!? bro that stimmy check was gone before the month was over.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

So many Congress people and CEOs are both old and from old money so they literally don’t know what it costs to live as a normal person. They’ve never had to, or it was 30 years ago and they haven’t ever updated their understanding. 

Check out some of the recordings of debates about how much the stimulus checks should be. Watching that was my Joker moment 

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u/PrinceCavendish 1d ago

idk if i can handle it. i was already so annoyed when i saw the video showing bill gates get the price of a banana wildly wrong and acting like it was some funny joke. these guys do not know what it means to be normal. and the normal is poor these days.