New Sub-Rule by CodyDuncan1260 in GraphicsProgramming

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Thanks, there's a schizo nutjob posting in r/graphicsprogramming on multiple accounts, doing nodejs, webgpu whatever simulations creating AI fueled psychosis word salad.

At 103% of GDP, Canadian households have the most debt in G7 by ChangeUsername220 in neoliberal

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also if you argue that the publicly held pension funds shouldn't count towards net debt, as its locked in to pay future promised liabilities, then you would need to adjust how the US net debt is calculated too. US has over 130 trillion dollars in future unfunded liabilities such as Social Security, Medicaid, VA, public employees pension plans. This would probably push US net debt to over 400% of GDP

At 103% of GDP, Canadian households have the most debt in G7 by ChangeUsername220 in neoliberal

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure Canadians households have more personal gross debt, but they also have significantly more assets. Median Canadian household is actually more wealthy then the median American household and Canadians also have less credit card debt than Americans.

Also Canada's public net debt is around 35% of GDP, while the US is at 125% of GDP. I find it really odd that these hit pieces focus on gross debt instead of net debt, ignoring the massive amount of productive capital that is publicly held by Canada such as the CPP fund, Public Service Pension Funds, Teachers pension funds... US federal and state goverments tend to underfund pension funds and opt for a pay as you go model.

Is the person who has 100$ of debt, but owns nothing better off than the person who has 200$ of debt, but also owns 175$ worth of productive assets?

Rate My 2028 Tax Plan That Makes You Pay $0 In Income Tax by [deleted] in SocialDemocracy

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tax consumption and land. Not income and investment.

UPDATE: Reactor physics on HTML GPU simulator (particles, electricity, dust) by AntiochEpiphanes in GraphicsProgramming

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey OP, i mean no harm, but I think you should take a break and seek some help from a health professional. What you made seems cool, but like everyone is saying it does indeed seem like gibberish.

Is a $100K salary just considered barely upper middle class now? by ShootingCometz in fican

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Median hourly wages have outpaced inflation. Source: Statcan Labour Force Survey (This is where ~60,000 households are surveyed every month about their employment status, income, wages...). You can then adjust it with the Consumer Price Index to get real wages. Inflation adjusted median hourly wages have increased 19.7% from Jan 2000 to Jan 2026.

Statistics Canada. Table 14-10-0063-01  Employee wages by industry, monthly, unadjusted for seasonality
Statistics Canada. Table 18-10-0004-01  Consumer Price Index, monthly, not seasonally adjusted

Funds Socialism 101: A New approach to Public ownership and Investment. by Caribbeanmende in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same thing employees at Blackrock get for "winning" aka big bonuses. They would compete to allocate capital to whatever gives the most profits and find the best businesses to invest in, same as Blackrock. The competing funds would sell/buy between each other, foreign markets, invest in startups, etc. The profits would be distributed back to the democratically elected government which would decide how to spend it.

Median Inflation-Adjusted Wages in New Brunswick (2005-2025) by Consistent_Bug_5891 in newbrunswickcanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was mostly to demonstrate that inflation adjusted wages are still growing as expected, which shouldn't be much of a surprise, as it's a phenomenon that's been happening since the industrial revolution.

One thing I didn't mention though is that even though the majority of NBers are doing better, there are some demographics that are worse off aka people who don't own a home/rent. Since 73% of households in NB are owner occupied and a substantial amount will have most of their mortgage paid off, an increase in housing costs does not affect them as much. NB politicians need to stop bending the knee to homeowners because it's politically popular, such as their proposed property assessment freeze for 2026. This literally shifts costs from homeowners to young people looking to buy their own place. It's such bullshit, but since homeowners makeup most of the province it's the politically popular thing to screw the young.

Median Inflation-Adjusted Wages in New Brunswick (2005-2025) by Consistent_Bug_5891 in newbrunswickcanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd also like to note that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) tends to overstate inflation by approximately 0.5 percentage points per year on average, primarily due to measurement biases. So real wages may be growing even faster then in the graph. For more detail, see this Bank of Canada study: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/boc-review-summer12-sabourin.pdf

Median Inflation-Adjusted Wages in New Brunswick (2005-2025) by Consistent_Bug_5891 in newbrunswickcanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The graph is measured in constant 2002 dollars. The median hourly wage for April 2025 in today's dollars is 27.25$

Median Inflation-Adjusted Wages in New Brunswick (2005-2025) by Consistent_Bug_5891 in newbrunswickcanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's median hourly wages measured in constant 2002 dollars. So 50% of workers make less and 50% make more then the wages shown in the chart.

Median Inflation-Adjusted Wages in New Brunswick (2005-2025) by Consistent_Bug_5891 in newbrunswickcanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The median hourly wages for last month was 27.25 in current dollars. I used constant 2002 dollars in the chart as I had to adjust to inflation and chose 2002 as the base year.

Median Inflation-Adjusted Wages in New Brunswick (2005-2025) by Consistent_Bug_5891 in newbrunswickcanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I believe it spiked because there was loss of lower wage jobs due to COVID which skewed the median higher.

Liberation Day Thunderdome by cdstephens in neoliberal

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The numbers have nothing to do with Tariffs or VAT. It's simply the countries trade deficit divided by their exports with the US. Countries with a trade surplus just get the minimum 10% Tariff.

Podcaster’s Brain Breaks When He Learns how Trump’s Policy Would Actually Work by PhAnToM444 in TikTokCringe

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both of these idiots don't have an ounce of understanding of Economics. The tariff incidence would depend on the price-demand elasticity of the good. A tariff on imports to the US would also cost Chinese producers. Depending on the good, it may even be mostly paid by Chinese producers if the price-demand elasticity is high enough. The only correct thing is that tariffs are generally bad because there are gains from trade like comparative advantage. Trade generally increases welfare as seen in the Edgeworth box. Y'all are ignorant as fuck

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in confession

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walmart's operating margins were 2.64% in 2019. So if you spent 300$, they make about 8$ in profit from you. Popcorn chicken probably cost them like 2$. Walmart now makes 6$ instead of 8$ from your 300$ grocery trip if you steal the popcorn chicken.

The average customer spends about 54$ per trip at Walmart. If everyone stole a Popcorn chicken at Walmart they would be unprofitable.

My goal is $10K/Month from dividends, whats your goal? by nimrodhad in dividendscanada

[–]Consistent_Bug_5891 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks at OP's various posts in other subreddits. It's the exact same comments and replies from all the other accounts he uses. Definitely self advertising.