I’m making way more money than I ever have in my life and I can barely save anything lol
Nailed it. I’m doing better than I ever have, and I think I should dump more into my 401k! Nope. Groceries feel like they’ve almost doubled in cost. Fucking unbundling of so much , data, or travel costs an arm and a leg in additional fees. Simple repairs to my car or parts for a mower are crazy expensive. As soon as I feel like I’ve gotten ahead, they jack up the prices to eat up my gains.
Is the cost of living crisis that crazy?
I left the US in 2017 tired of a decade of stagnant wages.
Of course in 2018 the wages started spiking. But is all of it eaten by cost of living increases?
Yes. A congressional report found that nearly 50% of inflation went straight into corporate coffers. Record profits across the board. They turned the dial up until our wage gains were all gone.
Dude. Same. I finally started making a 6 figure salary, and I feel just as broke as I did before. It sucks.
25% raise a year ago. The most I have ever made in my life. I used coinstar to buy groceries last week.
Switched jobs, got a 50% raise. Can’t afford food till second pay of next month. Going to wipe out my canned food collection.
But the economy is doing great!
The fact the economy depends on un employment is fucking gross
Had a sociologist class with one of those dirty communist neo something something professors who asked the class “why do we measure how well the country is doing using unemployment or GDP instead of happiness”.
Crazy thing was that my first instinct was to think how stupid it was to measure happiness. I’m such a fucking brainwashed idiot
Happiness, while a useful metric, isn’t a very consistent one from person to person, or even from day to day. It’s a very subjective and hard to quantify metric.
Not that GDP or unemployment are better indicators, but they’re solid numbers that can be definitively and accurately counted and done so consistently over decades.
Still there has to be a better non-subjective metric than those, they’re not very telling.
That was actually a big part of the lecture. Is measuring happiness actually inconsistent. He put a good argument for it not being inconsistent. That we can not only measure happiness pretty consistently but that we can also measure all the things that contribute to it pretty accurately. One of my favorite lectures in school
Everything depends on scarcity. Supply and demand. There has to be unsatisfied demand otherwise prices would be too low for anyone to make any money… it’s a poorly designed system.
Death to the profit motive.
Yes comrade, I, too, welcome bread lines.
Because there’s definitely nobody going hungry under capitalism, no siree.
As we all know, no one ever goes hungry in profitable countries.
Parroting completely ignorant takes on history without understanding history. Classic liberal.
think you confused communism for capitalism there champ https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html
Capitalism got us this far. Now if we try out communism, we can have chipotle style burrito lines, iPhone lines, and latte lines. It’d be glorious.
I was promised a taco truck on every corner!
Gods forbid the CEOs take a pay cut.
Look at this green line we built out of your blood!
Thank god student payments are restarting to really add to it
“How could Biden do this!?!?!” - Mitch McConnell
Where’s all that war profit going?
To defense contractors.
Sorry, if you’re not one of them then you’re lining their pockets while getting nothing in return.
Removed by mod
Brandon running for the next term focusing on economy
Nobody will believe him after the student loan lie. So centrists will be disillusioned again, not vote again, and they’ll blame the left again - when in truth he didn’t go left enough.
Bidenomics
