• hark@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s odd that people here mock voters for “pRiCe oF EgGs” but don’t realize that it was shorthand for the economy being shit for the vast majority of Americans. Obviously Trump isn’t better for the economy, but there were fundamental problems like the high cost of living that people were desperate to get out of and desperate people do desperate things which can be seen as stupid.

    Our economy has been an inflatable castle patched with band-aids all over, especially since 2008, but the foundations for this setup was laid down decades before that. Touting higher consumer spending numbers (because people have to pay more for everything), lower unemployment (because people are kicked off unemployment and have to work shitty gig work), or the dumb stock market (which has been pumped with massive money printing) is as dishonest as outright hiding numbers.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      But Harris told me the economy was doing great as my family had to balance eating food, paying rent, and getting my dad’s medical bills for having a stroke. She’d never lie!