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> 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 recor
by 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 agoonline 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 agoThe 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.