• DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
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    24 days ago

    Because you work for 2 weeks then you get paid for those 2 weeks. If you earnt $1000 in 2005 and didn’t get the money until today, you’d be upset because $1000 doesn’t buy what it used to.

    They say on average the market goes up 7% per year and inflation is about 3% per year. So it’s about half.

    • MisterFrog@aussie.zone
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      24 days ago

      Again, this is what we call investment risk. Investments that don’t up beyond inflation are a bad investment. Which is the risk you take in order to see a potential profit.

      That’s not our collective problem.

      Giving people a discount to subsidise their profits is not a worthwhile way to spend our tax dollars.

      People still invested before this discount was granted, so I’m not really convinced it would break anything by getting rid of it