Since the pandemic, the economy and jobs market have recovered

Lie from the jump. The whole article is a lie, unless you're the upper arm of the k.

Gell-Mann amnesia, indeed.

Maybe if we didn’t have such a lunatic in charge we wouldn’t feel so glum.

Maybe if we didn’t have all these companies that continue to swallow smaller companies only to lay off the staff they just acquired for “profits go up” we wouldn’t feel so glum.

Maybe if companies weren’t telling us that a computer is going to actually replace us this time, or maybe sometime in the near future so don’t get comfortable where you are we wouldn’t be so glum.

Maybe if the minimum wage could actually let someone comfortably rent an apartment without having to worry about going homeless we wouldn’t e so glum.

Maybe if we didn’t have to have our healthcare tied to our employer, so we could follow our passion projects instead of selling our souls to the biggest business in your area we wouldn’t be so glum.

Maybe if the planet wasn’t actively trying to kill us because we’ve actively been ignoring scientists who have said the climate change is real we wouldn’t be so glum.

Maybe if we invested in the culture of our cities instead of focusing on making cars go through our towns even faster we wouldn’t be so glum.

But idk, maybe I’m just a doomer.

Do they think we can just...stop buying things? Boy I sure have tried but unfortunately I still need to eat food, still need to pay rent, and still need to wear clothes. Maybe if I can ascend from my fleshy form to a higher level of being I'll get to stop spending money, but unfortunately as is I have no choice if I want to survive.

Gosh, I wonder why everyone is so bummed out when Amerika is so great again… /s

Oi, dickheads, you can partially fix this in a month.

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Since the pandemic, the economy and jobs market have recovered

Lie from the jump. The whole article is a lie, unless you're the upper arm of the k.

Gell-Mann amnesia, indeed.

My 80 year old mom is driving for DoorDash in a car she's borrowed from me.

They may not call it a depression, but our experience tells us it is.

It used to be that if you spent $100 going out, you'd be talking about a nice restaurant dinner, a movie, and a couple of drinks at a club afterwards.

Now $100 is just the dinner.

It's a month's rent if you want to go to a big concert.

Economists are generally the last ones you can trust about bad economic tidings.

For one, almost all are paid by monied interests that don't want to spark a rout in the markets.

For another, they tend towards self impressed arrogance, talking down to everyone that didn't read their books, even as they have been consistently wrong.

Disclaimer: I don't have the best record on predicting markets either, which apparently can remain solvent longer than I can remain sane.

It's clear most modern Economists are wankers who don't understand people or the bigger picture outside of monetary economic figures.

I say most because economics gets interesting when you talk about non monetary economics.

Economists:

The economy is in a death spiral. You need to simply go outside to see it, if you can afford that. This is the same as how states warn people at the last minute about evacuations during hurricanes. It's to push off panic.

🫩 Once we hit Japan level inflation we can all have a 30$/hr job that will mean virtually nothing.

It's been a non-stop inflation show for six years and they can't figure out why people want to buy shit before they can no longer afford those things due to the rapid inflation?

I spent more than I wanted to and should have on PC parts in the last year... But waiting risked the prices going even higher and becoming more unaffordable (which yes fucking happened with the items I got which are now MUCH more expensive than they already were).

Like the idea that they can't put together a strong economy comes from the poorest scrambling to get their before their last chance to do so dries up.

We all know this is unsustainable and collapse is inevitably coming. Why wouldn't we be spending now to prepare for the collapse?

But what are they spending it on?

There's such a thing as shopping therapy for useless and speculative items, like Pokemon cards and Trader Joes bags, and also spending on numbing substances like alcohol and drugs are more indicative of an unhealthy social structure.

It takes data?