Absolutely. They’ve been trying to increase the retirement age for years now.

It’s actually lower in the poor-er regions.

If people can afford to commute to office jobs in 5,000lb trucks the gas prices aren’t high enough.

The people running the show know what is going on and it’s been this way for ages. Did we all forget the Kent State massacre

The data you linked was not incorrect; however it is irrelevant when people are living paycheck to paycheck more now than ever (in modern times). If you’re living paycheck to paycheck with no investments you are not relying on inflation to add to investment return. If you were to bring up cats when talking about cars I would likely disregard it as well.

Love that you totally ignore the wages v. income. Ha.

You never mentioned wages vs income so hard to not ignore it.

There is no housing shortage, there is a housing as a service boom.

It’s not linked, you’re just lost in the sauce and assume they are. No wonder you can’t understand how deflation would benefit those on a fixed income unable to build savings or wealth.

We are seeing economic indicators of distress. Most Americans have no savings, spend closer to half their income on housing, have most bankruptcies due to medical bills, can’t pay their student loans…

You’re talking about bad financial decisions not economic distress. Yeah, people aren’t getting home loans they can default on because they can’t get the loan, it’s like 5%+ on houses 4x their value a decade ago.

You’re talking about the finance bro shit not the working class shit. Sure the finance bros are fine but it’s no wonder the working class doesn’t want to do this for the sake of the finance bros.

Raises usually lag behind inflation, but generally keep pace with it, more or less.

They really don’t. Especially now-a-days.

That’s really not correct.

If you don’t get a raise, inflation doesn’t help you pay bills; however, you’d have to have your pay reduced to not cover deflation and that’s much harder.

Since working class people typically pay their debts off an income it wouldn’t be much of a problem. It’s the investors that would be facing more of a problem as their investments would not be increasing in value with the currency.

Conversely if the wages matched inflation it wouldn’t matter much but they never do because any inflation or deflation is means for an employer to trim the wages they pay.

I guess? It’s really both as it is more expensive compared to mostly all privately owned land.

Because a bunch of rich people think it’s worth it I guess

That and the land the US is trying to build through is extremely expensive like some of the most expensive land in the world.

That’s the thing, you’re not shedding any light, you’re just sharing the opinion that you don’t care.

You do realize a lot of your counter points are “I don’t care” right? Why even discuss this topic if you have no intent to empathize with them even if you disagree?

Why do you say that sounds like an overestimation? I’m not saying you’re wrong but they seem to be pretty correct just because the impact to the scope is quite vague. Damaging a business could be anything from a few sales not made or the further monopoly of Google. There are countless creators across the country that would have troubles without it as it is their main advertising method. The last point is pretty self explanatory.

Really this is just a big handout to Meta and Google with nothing beyond that of merit. If they wanted to beat up all three for data collection I’m down for it but just the one feels unfair.

What a fucking national embarrassment.

I truly wish Mexico luck, the US legal system protects gun makers better than children.

Don’t corporations get tax cuts for hiring people with disabilities?

I could be misremembering this but I just don’t think they should be able to take tax cuts and complain about paying people the bare minimum.

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