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The worst part of this report is my diminished faith in the numbers.

by ortusdux 4mo ago

AnimalMuppet 4mo ago
Could you explain? What about this report pushes you toward not believing the numbers?
- aaomidi 4mo ago
  It’s not this report specifically but the other stuff the admin has done with the BLS.
  - bigstrat2003 4mo ago
    It's unfortunately not limited to the current administration. We've had the government telling us to not trust our lying eyes about inflation at least since the Biden administration. At the time government officials were reassuring everyone that there wasn't inflation while everyone could see the prices going up everywhere.
    - aaomidi 4mo ago
      BLS was not gutted then. I have no love for Biden. I didn’t vote for him/kamala in the last election. However I can also recognize that these two are not the same situation.
- miltonlost 4mo ago
  Not so much THIS report, but you can't trust any data that the Trump administration puts out after all the blantant corruption. Remember the Sharpie on the hurricane chart?
- ortusdux 4mo ago
  It's more the messenger than the message. Or in this case the people funding and staffing the messenger, and who desperately need this number to be as low as possible.
- jmull 4mo ago
  The current administration fires people leading BLS when it reports numbers they don't like, regardless of the merit of the numbers.
hereme888 4mo ago
In an age when one opponent says "the economy is great!" and the other "the economy is doing terrible!", I just tune out and keep my own thoughts.
- ajross 4mo ago
  This kind of deliberate both-sides-ist ignorance is PRECISELY why those arguments work. You aren't being smart, you are giving your overlords permission to lie to you. These are tractable (if complicated) questions with real (if imprecise and inevitably debatable) conclusions. Ignoring them because you don't like argument and are confused by the talking heads on the news is, to be blunt, destroying society.
  - hereme888 4mo ago
    You misunderstand. I shut my ears to their propaganda, not my eyes to real research and verified information. Then, I talk this way or that to friends/family, and vote accordingly.

The worst part of this report is my diminished faith in the numbers.

AnimalMuppet 4mo ago

Could you explain? What about this report pushes you toward not believing the numbers?

aaomidi 4mo ago
It’s not this report specifically but the other stuff the admin has done with the BLS.
- bigstrat2003 4mo ago
  It's unfortunately not limited to the current administration. We've had the government telling us to not trust our lying eyes about inflation at least since the Biden administration. At the time government officials were reassuring everyone that there wasn't inflation while everyone could see the prices going up everywhere.
  - aaomidi 4mo ago
    BLS was not gutted then. I have no love for Biden. I didn’t vote for him/kamala in the last election. However I can also recognize that these two are not the same situation.
miltonlost 4mo ago
Not so much THIS report, but you can't trust any data that the Trump administration puts out after all the blantant corruption. Remember the Sharpie on the hurricane chart?
ortusdux 4mo ago
It's more the messenger than the message. Or in this case the people funding and staffing the messenger, and who desperately need this number to be as low as possible.
jmull 4mo ago
The current administration fires people leading BLS when it reports numbers they don't like, regardless of the merit of the numbers.

hereme888 4mo ago

In an age when one opponent says "the economy is great!" and the other "the economy is doing terrible!", I just tune out and keep my own thoughts.

ajross 4mo ago
This kind of deliberate both-sides-ist ignorance is PRECISELY why those arguments work. You aren't being smart, you are giving your overlords permission to lie to you. These are tractable (if complicated) questions with real (if imprecise and inevitably debatable) conclusions. Ignoring them because you don't like argument and are confused by the talking heads on the news is, to be blunt, destroying society.
- hereme888 4mo ago
  You misunderstand. I shut my ears to their propaganda, not my eyes to real research and verified information. Then, I talk this way or that to friends/family, and vote accordingly.