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As the population continues to age, and more people are 62+, this is expected...
by onlyrealcuzzo 8mo ago
As the population continues to age, and more people are 62+, this is expected...
- idiotsecant 8mo agoLook at that trajectory one more time and tell me how 'expected' it is. The first stages of a worldwide recession is what it looks like to me.
- gilbetron 8mo agohttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1T9dv&height=490 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1T9dv&heig... There are way more retired people as a percentage.
- idiotsecant 7mo agoI need you to very carefully consider the x axis of those 2 plots. Think about it real hard.
- gilbetron 7mo agoOk, and?
- djohnston 8mo agoI don’t think that’s telling the whole story. Immigration has always been used as leverage against the native workers, and now it’s more efficiently corrupt than ever.
- 46493168 8mo agoUsed by whom?
- influx 8mo agoThe capital class?
- GOD_Over_Djinn 8mo agoIt’s crazy how the same people that are pro-labor union are also pro-immigration. How do they not realize that immigration is used as a weapon against labor organization? Workers movements of the 20th century were well aware of this obvious fact. But I guess in this hyper polarized culture, people are scared of being labeled a bigot for having a stance on immigration that divergent from the liberal orthodoxy
- djohnston 7mo agoBecause they see the world thru skin color not economic class.