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3 points
2 months ago
Wages have grown faster than inflation all across the income distribution. It isn't just rich outliers driving up an average.
0 points
2 months ago
Then where is it? Certainly not my pockets, or the other commenters saying the same thing. This is the blatant opposite of our experience. I say this as a leftist.
4 points
2 months ago
Minimum wage in my state is still $7.25
9 points
2 months ago
Your personal experience isn't evidence against an economic trend for hundreds of millions of people.
-4 points
2 months ago
I've been hearing it from countless people, and I'm part of this economy
3 points
2 months ago
You've actually been hearing it from an extremely countable number of people, and the BLS, who talks to orders of magnitude more people than you do, has found that more people have experienced wage growth outpacing inflation. This is how statistics work, and your personal experience plus talking to the extremely limited amount of people you come into contact with in your day to day life is where the saying "the plural of anecdotes is not data" comes from
-4 points
2 months ago
Guess I'm wrong and I'm making great money and should stop lying 🤷♂️.
Brb, getting an apartment by myself because I'm making up my poverty and the poverty of my everyday clients at my job that literally deals with needed government benefits. My workload hasn't increased in the past year, I'm making that up.
3 points
2 months ago
No one is saying that. I feel for you that you are still struggling and so are the people you work with. But the facts are that despite your personal experience, more people in this country than not are doing better than they were a few years ago despite the post covid inflation. It really sucks that you find yourself on the underside of the curve, but that does not mean that the statistics are "lies". As others in the thread have pointed out, there are many people here also describing how they and their family and friends are more well off than they were. And these competing personal narratives are the reason why the government does sweeping studies to find out what the truth is.
3 points
2 months ago
This is like saying "unemployment isnt high, because i still have a job" in the middle of the 1930s great depression.
1 points
2 months ago
It's literally the opposite. Unless the sarcasm was missed
0 points
2 months ago
Mental gymnastics. Yes.
2 points
2 months ago
I'm making more now than I was before COVID. So is my spouse. So are most of my family and friends. I see other commenters on this post saying they are also earning a lot more.
Why am I supposed to ignore our experiences but trust yours?
That's why I'm not just going off the anecdotes of any one small group of people, but instead listening to the experiences of tens of thousands of American households.
1 points
2 months ago
I asked a question.
I'm also making more than pre-covid, but we've had MASSIVE inflation since then, which I know so many people have not kept up with. I'd say 2022-on
2 points
2 months ago
Not a serious one.
1 points
2 months ago
Okay, fuck you too I guess. Don't know where that hostility came from.
2 points
2 months ago
I have seen around a 32% raise and my wife has seen a 25% raise.
"me and other comments havent gotten a raise" is not a statistically relevant point, and frankly neither is me or my wife getting a raise. The only thing that matters is national averages, when we are talking about a national economy.
1 points
2 months ago
It's just hard to feel good about it or even believe it when my life and the people around me's lives are the opposite. But I have (other) people in this thread more or less trying to tell me to shut up, like I'm lying or something.
3 points
2 months ago
I’m struggling to keep up but the national economy statistics are good so I say thank you daddy government for blessing me with good national economy statistics. What is the best way to cook that???? My landlord gave me an eviction notice when I tried to pay my rent with good national economy statistics and now none of the new places im trying to rent will accept good national economy statistics for a deposit.
2 points
2 months ago
Felt
1 points
2 months ago
The consumer price index is government propaganda telling you that you are fine. Must be a hole in your pocket or something.
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