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Not only is CPI very suspect (iPads got faster so we can ignore that pesky food inflation), the postive economic numbers pointed to are now frequently adjusted

• bravetraveler 2y ago
  Reminder, too: an estimation above was based on voters. The United States (assumed, quoting census.gov) doesn't have compulsory voting. We have a lot of ballot opportunities. "Voters" is vague at best. Points being: participation often ends up abysmal. I mention this because it's also suspect/misleading - intentional or not. Posting down here to not appear as a criticism. I'm lacking facts too. Counter-intuitively... voters as a category lose each of our elections to non-voters; outnumbered like 2:1. A majority of a minority is doing better - yay! I should verify this, but I'm here rambling instead. Someone may check/correct me :) Trick is, the non-voters implicitly cast no vote. They're probably in substantial numbers, doing the same or worse, and yet don't "count" in this hypothetical. I need to make sense of the rest of the claims, but I know this: I was making $160k. It stopped feeling like the lucrative amount it was. I had to get a significant raise to be comfortable with no new costs - only the same, expanded. I didn't choose for everything to cost more.