those would imply inflation was nearly 100% between the end of GFC and before the pandemic
... yes? There's many things I'm paying double for at this point from 10-20 years ago. Maybe you haven't noticed? How does creating wealth hurt others?
Inflation. If i print $1 trillion dollars, i buy up all the resources you need to live and dangle them in front of you and control every aspect of your life. You need to be checking every thing it does.
This is what seems to be lost on so many. As someone with relatively little code experience, I find myself learning more than ever by checking the results and what went right/wrong. the handful of sites you feel like you're stuck using for some reason
Billions have been spent building walls around niche and small sites to funnel people into major platforms. Pretending this ad/discoverability infrastructure doesn't exist is very naive. I would think, the golden age of criminal hacking is drawing to a close. This assume companies smart enough to do this however.
It's rarely the systems that are the weak link, rather the humans with backdoor access.
Calling this nimbyism is billionaire psyop lol