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have you ever considered that maybe you need to get out of whatever online bubble you're in? I grew up poor in the 80's and 90's. I've been homeless, lived wi

have you ever considered that maybe you need to get out of whatever online bubble you're in? I grew up poor in the 80's and 90's. I've been homeless, lived without running water, electricity, and so forth. being poor has always been hard and always will be hard. Everyone else is doing ok, wealthy or not. inflation hurts everyone, I certainly don't like seeing my food bill nowadays, but I can afford it just fine. If someone is lower middle class and above and can't afford their bills, their issue is lifestyle inflation caught them out. I'm not saying there aren't problems, but you've lost perspective here. The vast majority of Americans are not _struggling_ to afford food, nor do you have to be "extremely wealthy" to avoid struggling to afford food.

autoexec 3y ago
> have you ever considered that maybe you need to get out of whatever online bubble you're in? No online bubble can explain away the fact that the US has record high household debit, record high numbers of people eating into retirement, or record high numbers of people paying more than 30% of their income to rent (https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordab...). The fact is that most of us on this website are far better off than the rest of country. If you have just $1,000 sitting in savings you're better off than over half of the country (https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-americans-dont-have-enough-savings-to-cover-1000-expense/ https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-americans-do...) The vast majority of Americans have been forced to change their normal shopping habits because they can no longer afford what they used to. Millions of Americans are dealing with hunger and food insecurity (https://news.yahoo.com/millions-americans-live-hunger-food-234352672.html https://news.yahoo.com/millions-americans-live-hunger-food-2...). None of this is a good look for our economic future.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
  online bubble: 1 sanity: 0 The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago and the answer is yes.
  - autoexec 3y ago
    The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago then how could today's numbers be "records". When records are being broken that means that things aren't the same as they have been. Maybe you could say that America has been in decline for a long long time, but it's still doing worse today in several metrics than it ever has.

autoexec 3y ago

> have you ever considered that maybe you need to get out of whatever online bubble you're in? No online bubble can explain away the fact that the US has record high household debit, record high numbers of people eating into retirement, or record high numbers of people paying more than 30% of their income to rent (https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordab...). The fact is that most of us on this website are far better off than the rest of country. If you have just $1,000 sitting in savings you're better off than over half of the country (https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-americans-dont-have-enough-savings-to-cover-1000-expense/ https://truthout.org/articles/more-than-half-of-americans-do...) The vast majority of Americans have been forced to change their normal shopping habits because they can no longer afford what they used to. Millions of Americans are dealing with hunger and food insecurity (https://news.yahoo.com/millions-americans-live-hunger-food-234352672.html https://news.yahoo.com/millions-americans-live-hunger-food-2...). None of this is a good look for our economic future.

PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
online bubble: 1 sanity: 0 The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago and the answer is yes.
- autoexec 3y ago
  The question you have to ask yourself is if this was all true 20 years ago then how could today's numbers be "records". When records are being broken that means that things aren't the same as they have been. Maybe you could say that America has been in decline for a long long time, but it's still doing worse today in several metrics than it ever has.