Interesting Links for 20-01-2022

[andrewducker]

If you're poor then the cost of living has gone up by a *lot* more than 5%

(tags:economics UK poverty )

A NASA Probe Went and Touched the Sun

(tags:sun space NASA )

Coffee can't fix all the cognitive impairments caused by a bad night's sleep

(tags:caffeine psychology sleep )

Men Are Creating AI Girlfriends and Then Verbally Abusing Them

As a friend put it "This is how you get Terminators"
(tags:ai abuse misogyny hate )

The gender wage gap is really a child care penalty

(tags:children patriarchy wages gender society )

New rules passed for short-term lets in Scotland

(tags:rental housing Scotland )

Comments

[naath]

nah, it'll be power/fuel first.

[danieldwilliam]

I mean, the largest factor in whether people notice an actual reduction in their standard of living as a result of fuel and power price increases, after payrises, will be their housing situation and how fixed or sticky their housing costs are.

If your housing costs are sticky, particulary if you have low-interest nominal debt, like a mortgage, periods of high inflation are not necessarily bad for you.

[naath]

my mortgage is fixed (low rate) until I don't expect to have a mortgage, because we are jammy sods. I notionally win y the cap gain on my house BUT I AM USING THE HOUSE so that's not real money; I actually win payrise without a rent increase.