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And bear in mind that the US economy is better off than pretty much the entire rest of the developed world outside maybe Switzerland. Americans who think housin
by TMWNN 3y ago
And bear in mind that the US economy is better off than pretty much the entire rest of the developed world outside maybe Switzerland. Americans who think housing is expensive shut up the moment they look north of the 49th parallel, for example. So just how much worse off is everyone else?
(And if your answer is that somehow "free[1] health care" and "vacation days" are enough to compensate for non-Americans, boy have you missed the point.)
[1] No, Virginia, the NHS and Canadian Medicare's approaches are not the norm for the developed world
- pierat 3y agoThe "economy" is just a measure of how much money the ultra-rich have. When the DOW or NYSE or whatever drops a bucket of points, that's still not me. It's the uber-rich. When a grocery cart of groceries goes from $40 to $200 for the same damned things, that's definitely on me, and families all around me. And as far as we can tell, those numbers were based purely on greed, or in the sanitized terms of economists "what the market will bear". Well, the market don't give 2 fucks about us people; I say let it burn and bring out the guillotines.