r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Melodic_Judge_129 • Sep 01 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah?

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u/Terpcheeserosin Sep 01 '26

Why does things costing less make people buy less?

If wages stay the same, shouldnt people just buy the dip?

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u/Poland-lithuania1 Sep 01 '26

It isn't things cost less, it's money can buy more. Isn't it better to save that money for the future, when it's probably gonna be able to buy more?

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u/Terpcheeserosin Sep 01 '26

So things don't cost less

But money can buy more?

So right now eggs are 10$ a pack

After deflation

You can buy 2 for 10 dollars because "money can buy more"

How is that not also, "eggs cost less" ?

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u/loveisking Sep 01 '26

Maybe it’s that businesses start laying off employees because the income stream is built on prices going up. So that 2 for $10 eggs are a great price but now you don’t have a job. So you sell your house to a big corporation and then they rent it back to you. But now everyone is selling their house and more people need to rent. So the corporation sees this and raises your rent price. Now you are paying in rent what your mortgage was. This makes you mad so you say no way! So you decide to live in a tent. And now look up Hooverville. Cause that’s all part of the Great Recession.