• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    Oh, sorry. I’m definitely not trying to argue against the idea that the economy is shit or that the ever widening chasm between the “classes” is a massive fucking problem.

    I’m fairly outspoken online about how I feel like the social justice movement (while critically important) that rose out of the ashes of Occupy Wallstreet was a ploy to get everyone below the 1% fighting each other. Won’t go as far to say the only war is class war, but it’s for sure the most inportant one.

    I was specifically focused on the headline’s claim of 60% using BNPL for groceries. We shouldn’t need “alternative facts” to make our point.

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      12 days ago

      I didn’t think you were arguing that, no worries m8.

      I was just trying to throw in some relevant numbers to attempt a more realistic estimate of the situation.

      I agree with you that the 60% figure for BNPL is not actually evidenced, and is likely an exageration, so I tried to do the author’s work better than they did and come up with a more defensible figure.

      I used to be a copy editor for a while, and oh man, yeah, it absolutely annoys me to no end when a person tries to argue in a direction I generally agree with, but they do so sloppily, with bad citations, logical leaps, lack of approoriate levels of knowledge leading to them making inferences and deductions that do not actually follow.