• S_204@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The stock market isn’t the economy regardless of what they try to convince us of.

    When so many people can’t afford to buy food, let alone homes while being fully employed - the economy isn’t working.

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      1 year ago

      That depends on your perspective. If you’re rich and getting richer, the economy is working. If you’re anyone else, the economy isn’t working. Your problem isn’t that the economy isn’t working, your problem is that you’re not rich. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the rich people did when they inherited millions to billions from their parents. It’s not that hard.

      While I’ll add a /s to acknowledge the end of the posh tone I took, that really is the situation we’re in.

    • scarabic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yes we need our media to focus on real economic measures that are closer to our lives. Consumer price index. Average gallon of gas. Wage growth. Housing costs.

      This BS “unemployment” number is worthless and everyone knows it but they keep reporting it!