What would it take? Higher wages, lower rents and house prices, lower food costs. It’s pretty fucking straightforward.
Fine for who?
Somehow all my lib friends have fully bought into stock market = economy, and they’re raving about how great the economy is. None of these fuckers grew up poor.
If you’re watching the big 401k line go up, it must seem strange to magically get 20% richer every year and see people complain about how they’re feeling increasingly impoverished.
None of these fuckers grew up poor.
Poor is a phase you go through in college when you’re living in student housing, dressing in sweat pants, and eating bowls of lukewarm ramen between classes. But then you graduate, work your way up through the New Hire program at your Fortune 500 company, get that first big five/six figure bonus check, and settle in as a 30-something with a proper labor aristocrat lifestyle.
Of course I grew up poor, but then I yanked hard on my bootstraps and now here I am!
Why didn’t you get a position earning six figures as a mid-level accountant at an insurance adjustment firm? Must not have worked hard enough, clearly.
You’re just mad because you weren’t smart enough to invest during the downturn. Didn’t you ever hear “buy low sell high”?
The crazy thing is half thenpeople amijg the argument aren’t even actually raking it in.
But they’ve been conditioned just as much as the “temporarily embaressed millionaires” to think advocating for their continued exploitation is virtuous.
Any time a fund in my 401 performs well it gets put on a list by the fund managers to get axed for some stupid reason. Can’t have the plebs get a secure future nope nope nope. Gotta keep these “options” down to less than 5% growth.
Why are people not trusting the market news we put out the cover for the Administration? It’s a mystery!
I knew a woman that went completely rabid for Trump boasting about how great the economy was doing during his admin. She had been posting on FB like a month before asking if anyone knew of a working car that she could buy for around 1k.
Also all these same libs u derstpod this perfectly when Trump was bragging about how great the economy was because the stock market was high.
But then blue Maga got elected and those exact same people somehow conveniently unlearned that fact and are now just literally running red Magas script.
What would it take to convince economists that “the economy” is fucking meaningless?
You seem to be focusing on material conditions (derogatory)
