> Media As far as I can tell, the mainstream media is working overtime to _downplay_ the actual state of things. I'm a computer programmer with an advanced de

> Media As far as I can tell, the mainstream media is working overtime to _downplay_ the actual state of things. I'm a computer programmer with an advanced degree and three decades of experience and until about a year ago, I got a dozen unsolicited job offers a month. Now I can't recall the last time I saw any. Reddit's /r/cscareerquestions used to be flooded with people complaining about persistent recruiters, now it's flooded with credentialed people who've been looking for a job for months with no success. My wife and I both make good salaries in a relatively low cost of living area and we're suddenly finding ourselves cutting back drastically just to keep from falling behind. I track my finances pretty carefully and I can compare what I spent on groceries and gas and medical expenses later year vs. this year (against the 0% pay raise we've both gotten for the past few years) and it's quite a bit. I'm in a good position since I bought a house a long time ago at a fixed mortgage rate and am still employed, but I can't even imagine how people even a little worse off than me are doing... all while the network news and the places on the internet that haven't been shadowbanned are insisting that we're just exaggerating the scope of this financial crisis. I remember 2000 and 2008, and neither seem like anything compared to this.