A bomb drops overseas, and a month later, an infant in a completely different hemisphere dies from a spike in gas prices.

​A 20% spike in gas prices feels like an annoyance to most of us, but mathematically, that 0.9% inflation bump translates to ~10 empty cribs and dozens of early funerals for the poorest families in 🇺🇸

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

This seems more like a bath thought.

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