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More than half of Americans say the cost of living is worse under Trump than at any other point in their lives
(www.the-independent.com)
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My entire life has been a constant trend of prices going up, wages staying flat. That's now spanned across like 7 different administrations for me.
Some have been dramatically worse, like Trump, others just mild, but the trend has been the same for decades and it really all ties back to Reagan. Since then it's been a steady decline for 99% of Americans and a steady increase for the 1%.
But everyone keeps voting to help the 1% while simultaneously bemoaning the costs and pointing fingers at each other. It's wild.
yup. My father who never finished junior high raised seven kids on a single income and paid off a 5 bedroom home with massive yard near a major city with a good pension. I have a masters a dual major bachelors in stem and many certs and am barely holding onto a 2 bedroom condo with no kids (I mean the no kids is the way I want it). There is obviously something different thats been occuring between the 70's and now.
I'm in the same sort of situation. My parents both started college and dropped out after 3+ years. Then raised 3 kids and bought two houses while paying off two college tuitions with no degrees to show for it all on one secretary's income. Me and my wife both have college degrees and both work full time and can barely afford the tiny house we bought after 10+ years of saving. We would like children but I just don't see how we could afford it. How my parents did it financially seems like straight science fiction.
they did it because wealth disparity was not so high back then. so like companies actually worked to make products rather than buying assets like single family houses.
Yeah and i dont want kids either but if i won the lottery i would reconsider. But no i dont want to be a poor broke parent like fuck outta here
even if I was young and won the lottery I would not. maybe adopt or foster. at my age if I won the lotter I would not even do that. In the past I would have been looking at charities but at this point im likely to fund progressives. Not going to win the lottery as the tickets stopped being a paltry expense to get once in awhile.
it doesn't surprise me. most people are incredibly petty and bitter towards other people who have slightly more or less than them. and it only ever seems to get worse. they only want themselves to get more, and want everyone else to get less.
and if you say you are for broad-based economic growth, people just straight up hate you. it's socially unacceptable to desire this. you have to want others to suffer.
i have worked in public policy for 5 years after college. the one thing i learned, is EVERYONE hates fair economics and good economic policy, because they feel it's only 'really fair' if they are winning and other people are losing.
you have to remember, the vast majority of people operate purely on personal feelings. that includes the wealthy and elite-educated who think they are 'above' the rest of the population.
Yeah, for real. It's like kids fighting over a giant bag of candy and they rip the bag open and spill it all so no one gets any. They could have shared and everyone would have been happy and content and had candy to spare, but now no one gets any. Meanwhile the wealth hoarders have countless billion more bags of candy EACH and have it all locked away in warehouses and being traded around. Meanwhile now the 2 kids have no candy at all and are hungry and angry at each other and neither wants to address the fact that the 3rd kid has billions of bags hidden away from them when all 3 kids have the EXACT SAME RIGHT AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE EXACT SAME LEVEL OF EFFORT INTO THE SYSTEM TO EARN THE CANDY!!!!
And yet people keep voting against more candy for everyone and give all the candy to the one fat kid with diabetes that isn't even working to earn the candy anymore.
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!