Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

Post by massinstall » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

nowherebeen wrote: post #234

bythckr wrote: post #232

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> - The "lie-flat" movement massively picks up. This is a serious symptom that is being swept under the rug. Efforts needs to be put in to better understand the issue and enforce steps to resolve it. I lack the basic training in trying to understand the issue - sociology, psychology or whatever is the relevant field. But I feel that "lie-flat" is just an acute variant of the general issue - "checking out of reality".…

> "checking out of reality". The lie-flat movement came about in response to the 996. Workers realized they were being worked to death in factories for little pay and opportunities to climb up society's ladder dried up. The older generation sees it as laziness but if you look at it from their perspective, its a natural conclusion. The only people that benefits from being overworked, little pay, and few opportunities…

Post by JasonCannon » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 6:15 PM UTC

krapp wrote: post #63

metalliqaz wrote: post #31

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... which facilitates and end of free and fair elections in the US

Elections in the US have never been entirely free or fair.

Post by randomopining » Mon, Nov 22, 2021, 11:27 PM UTC

bshipp wrote: post #64

l33tbro wrote: post #20

I think the fake 'inflation' we are seeing (which is really supply-side shock) will vanish, and reveal that we are in a huge deflationary environment. Remote work is here to stay. Rents go up as over-leveraged landlords will have to pay back rising interest rates (QE is tapering already now). Climate issues, real and not so real, will be used to achieve the control agenda of established power in the same way the pand…

I'd argue that rents will fall as large volumes of "investment" housing starts to hit the market. The end of a decade (almost 2, actually) of quantitative easing and and resulting increase in interest rates is the death knell for asset value-derived investment. This includes any stock where the value is not correlated with revenue.

Post by ss108 » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 4:52 AM UTC

Post by runnerup » Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 7:09 PM UTC

bshipp wrote: post #64

l33tbro wrote: post #20

I think the fake 'inflation' we are seeing (which is really supply-side shock) will vanish, and reveal that we are in a huge deflationary environment. Remote work is here to stay. Rents go up as over-leveraged landlords will have to pay back rising interest rates (QE is tapering already now). Climate issues, real and not so real, will be used to achieve the control agenda of established power in the same way the pand…

I'd argue that rents will fall as large volumes of "investment" housing starts to hit the market. The end of a decade (almost 2, actually) of quantitative easing and and resulting increase in interest rates is the death knell for asset value-derived investment. This includes any stock where the value is not correlated with revenue.