{"id":2343,"date":"2026-04-14T14:20:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:15:48","slug":"why-is-there-inflation-because-you-are-a-sucker-thats-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/why-is-there-inflation-because-you-are-a-sucker-thats-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is there inflation? Because you are a sucker. That’s all."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Paying a lot at the pump? Can’t pay for groceries? Credit card debt? Got laid off by Corporate America?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sucker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am talking about you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As long as you just sit there and take it, they’ll force it on you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notice no one in the C-Suite is losing their jobs or getting less in pay or bonuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They claim costs have gone up (gas, tariffs), yet mysteriously, the Corporate America fairy still gives them record-breaking profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CEOs realized a long time ago that treating people like livestock makes people live up to the expectation that they are to be herded and lined up for slaughter without opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will these smash and grab orgies last forever? No, it never does because sooner or later, someone from the outside does the math and sees a weakness to exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only question is how things fall apart and who benefits. As long as people act like sheeple, things will only get worse for them, but should they find a backbone, they can gain agency and shape the outcome. Not with a savior. But by having some guts and heart to go along with the brain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paying a lot at the pump? Can’t pay for groceries? Credit card debt? Got laid off by Corporate America? Sucker. I am talking about you. As long as you just sit there and take it, they’ll force it on you. Notice no one in the C-Suite is losing their jobs or getting less in pay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,460],"tags":[497,75,488,63,490,494,495,166,26,491,489,493,42,492,73],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","category-the-damage-report","tag-akila-quinio","tag-bloomberg","tag-citibank","tag-financial-times","tag-jane-fraser","tag-josh-damaro","tag-joshua-franklin","tag-journalism","tag-propaganda","tag-rachel-wolfe","tag-todd-gillespie","tag-todd-spangler","tag-united-states","tag-variety","tag-wall-street-journal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}