The High Street spiral of self-harm
High Streets are emptying fast. Yesterday it was Habitat, today it is Thornton’s . And for those that remain, the deflationary offers of June summer sales – or ‘distress selling’, to quote Irving Fisher – serve only as a form of ghastly self-harm. In a desperate attempt to raise income to pay off debts and persuade customers to walk through the door, companies engage in price-cutting.
The aim is to undercut the competition, and increase income. But as prices spiral downwards, and profits fall, the victims become those same ‘self-harmers’.
And this harm is not confined to the High Street. Instead falls in prices lead to wider falls in profits, output and then employment which leads to further losses in confidence, and, finally, hoarding. In other words, today’s bankruptcies and summer sales spread the disease of deflation across the whole of the economy. And yet the government, like a parent unable to understand a grave mental disorder, has plunged instead into a state of denial.
But today’s ONS data confirms the High Street is suffering stress – and it is not confined to just one sector. Real household disposable incomes fell by 0.8 per cent, and consumer spending declined 0.6 per cent, the largest drop since the second quarter of 2009, according to Bloomberg . But then so did business investment which fell 3.2 per cent.
The reason for these falls? Unemployment, which combined with the threat of unemployment and the rise in part-time employment daily destroys economic activity, and with it companies and jobs.
After the trauma of the shock 2007-9 deflation of the inflated asset and debt bubble blown up over two decades by the finance sector, companies and individuals have to generate income for debts that need to be paid down, in the context of tight bank lending and high real rates of interest for SMEs. When these are combined with falls in the numbers of customers walking through the door, the result is bankruptcies and job losses, which, as the income of the unemployed evaporates, lead inexorably to more bankruptcies.
Unemployment’s next victim will be the Treasury. Slowly, but surely, it will cut Treasury tax revenues, and ratchet up welfare payments – leading to a rise in the deficit.
There is only one cure for this debt deflation: employment.
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Many individuals dealing with substance abuse issues or addiction have a past history of or current habit of self-harming, or “cutting.” Although the concept of self-harm and cutting is a very difficult concept for many people to grasp, it is very common amongst people with emotional issues. Many individuals dealing with a past trauma or dealing with overwhelming pain, depression, or sadness often turn to cutting themselves or other forms of self-harm as a way to cope with their problems. Although this may seem counter intuitive (cutting yourself in order to make yourself feel better), cutting and other self-injury does in fact make these individuals briefly feel as though they’re able to better handle life again, even functioning as a “release” of the emotional pain through the physical pain. However, after the individual harms themselves, the pain returns without any permanent recovery solutions. Individuals who are addicted to drugs and alcohol and also self-harm are in an especially dangerous situation. When an individual is drunk or under the influence of drugs, they may cause much more severe bodily harm to themselves than they normally would have intended to. At Passages Malibu , we teach clients how to end the dangerous cycle of addiction and self-harm by healing their underlying issues and learning healthy ways to deal with pain and problems. By understanding why you abuse drugs and alcohol and why you self-harm as a way of coping, you will be able to regain control of your life and overcome your addiction.
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