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Author is heavily opinionated and Kinda uses stats as a weapon. Ignores that a lot of those jobs are part-time, non benefitted positions or that corporations are buying houses making it hard for the younger generations to buy one. Not to mention wage gaps and vanishing pensions, etc.
But certainly, tell me more about how I should be positive about end game capitalism.
These are measurable, objective things that people are getting wrong:
These are core facts about the US economy. I don't think it's okay to say 'they answered incorrectly because they're worried about other things that weren't being asked about'.
A functioning democracy is predicted on having a rational electorate. But the repeated evidence of the last several years is that huge numbers of American voters seem unable to grasp the objective facts and reality of the country and world that they live in. For a long time we've all focused on the right-wing extremist angle to this - climate change denial, anti-vaxxers, 6 January denial, and so on. But the next US election is going to be centred around the economy, yet it seems like a lot of voters (drawn from both left and right?) are being influenced by a subjective worldview of the US economy that differs from objective measurable reality. They're going up vibe themselves into a Trump presidency.
Oh, so I will get to retire? Neat.
COVID highlighted a good bit of futility and pointlessness. As a well as a feeling of being locked in a cage with 30-40% of the country that's just insane
So I guess it is rosey now for someone. Probably won't hold and I know people who have personally suffered a nervous breakdown, without adequate care, as a result. People are fucking tired.
And let's not even get started on climate change and the future for our children given how pathetic people acted during an acute crisis.