LINE GO UP! This is good for economy! You want line to go up don’t you? If you don’t, you let the communists win

This sounds nice and pithy but it’s exactly what I repeated to conservatives throughout the pandemic.

Cons: “No one around me is dying and we’re all fine. I went to the hospital and it’s empty. What’s the big deal???”

Everyone with half a brain: “You’re talking about anecdotes. What matters is the data and it’s damning. Lots of people are dying.”

Edit:

To clarify, I mean that this applies to the economy as a whole. Not that everyone does well when the market does.

I appreciate your sentiment, but your lived experience is not everyone else’s lived experience.

My lived experience is racism is dead because I’m not racist and neither are friends.

Sexual assault doesn’t happen because I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone and only one person I know has been sexually assaulted.

The economy is doing great because my company handed out $10k bonuses to all employees this year along with a 5% raise.

Which lived experience should we believe?