• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 months ago

    I mean… it’s isn’t those things. It’s literally a government agency. It can’t “make profit”, it literally is the banking system, not a bank itself.

    • Gaia [She/Her]@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Congress isn’t a business, but Pelosi sure made a shitton of money off of insider trading. At best we live in an oligarchy that poses as a democratic republic. The votes follow the money, not vice versa.

    • Chives@lemmy.whynotdrs.orgM
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      9 months ago

      It is literally not a government agency. It operates under a mandate from congress, but is not a government agency.

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    9 months ago

    One of my favorite things on this earth is capitalists admitting that if wages ever rise such that workers can afford a decent life, the price of a decent life will just rise to exclude them in the same breath they use to talk about how capitalism lifts people out of poverty.

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    9 months ago

    The Fed is not privately held, the chairman is appointed by the president. There are no shareholders.

    Any profits the Fed makes get sent to the Treasury.

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      9 months ago

      Powell has been saying this for a long time. He doesn’t seem to like that people are making more money.

      Here’s just one of a plethora of examples you can find if you’d just Google it.

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        9 months ago

        I think they mean that no one in the government ever said that no one wants to work, it was just tight fisted business owners with no brains.

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          9 months ago

          When people say the Fed in this context (the tweet) they generally mean the Federal Reserve which is headed by Jerome Powell.

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          9 months ago

          Because of course he’s not. To me it seems he’s definitely more concerned about the pockets of the ruling class. Just my opinion of course.

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        9 months ago

        Yep. Rather than it being corporate greed driving everything (which has been reported on from many angles), it’s actually people making too much money that is the problem per Powell.

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          9 months ago

          Exactly. This is the guy saying unemployment needs to be higher. Like wtf, you actually want more people out of work.

          Higher wages is not what is driving inflation, it’s pure greed. Proven over and over again.

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    9 months ago

    Wages do need to come down.

    For a very small number of people who seem to have all of the wages.