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@GeofCox @crazydutchy @DJDarren My personal belief is supported by the impression that the motivation to buy secondhand is different from buying secondhand. Like you said, your decision to not buy new gifts doesn't depend on the secondhand gift market existing or not. You have the spending power to purchase new gifts, but you choose not to, a decision that likely wouldn't be impacted by Santa Claus somehow cracking down on secondhand gifts.

It goes the same way for budget shoppers looking at inexpensive secondhand items. If this market contracts, I believe they are unlikely to suddenly come into enough money to purchase new. So if someone on a budget was looking at secondhand Apple device, if they aren't available, I expect them to turn to a similar priced device which won't be a new Apple device because of the steep price difference.

@clacke This reminds me a recent incident where another kid in my child's 4th grade class (9-10 years old) started asking his classmates which side of the Israel-Palestine conflict they were on. 😬

The problem wasn't so much that they asked but that they offered only two sides, which is highly reductive view of this conflict.

@pfefferle @deadsuperhero Ich habe schon 2018 ein Issue im Repository von Mastodon erstellt, dass sich um die Problematik kümmert: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

Im Issue github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i… (auch von 2018) gibt es diesen Kommentar:

Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn sich da etwas ändern würde. Aber ich sehe es nicht als Aufgabe, dass wir um Mastodon herumarbeiten. Es gibt augenscheinlich Mastodon-Forks, die Article unterstützen. Vielleicht kann jemand einen diesbezüglichen PR stellen.

@trashheap I understand the sentiment but I think it's dangerous to index anything on inflation, because it is a macro-economic indicator computed a posteriori. As a reduction of a myriad of past economic facts into a single number, it is entirely abstract and applying it to any real number is bound to have unintended consequences. What if this application feeds into itself? What happens when it's negative?

We are already treating inflation like an actual thing and not an abstract concept way too much to my taste, trying to drive it using levers that are almost completely uncorrelated from it like the national interest rates and reporting on it in mainstream news when it doesn't apply to anyone's actual situation in particular and doesn't help people make informed choices.