> the public discourse either lacks motivation, understanding or incentive to take a proper look. Indeed. Almost always in these discussions people have alread

> the public discourse either lacks motivation, understanding or incentive to take a proper look. Indeed. Almost always in these discussions people have already made up their minds about the state of the economy and will just cherry-pick whatever metric best justifies their case (typically that the economy sucks). There's never been a time in my life where people weren't complaining about how the economy is terrible and how that's clearly obvious if you just look at the real numbers.