You’re old, straight, white and rich, motherfucker – YOU’RE going to be “ok.” Everyone else is fucked.

  • m_f
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    12 hours ago

    It doesn’t matter how well “the economy” recovered from Covid, when you see stuff like this:

    https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/

    Trump isn’t going to fix that, but Biden already didn’t, and FPTP means you get your pick of those two options.

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      11 hours ago

      Do you have figures that include 2024? That data seems to stop at 2021. Not saying you’re wrong but the picture being painted is just Biden’s first year as president during the height of the pandemic.

      Comparing things like rates of inflation and the consumer price index, we see the numbers drop dramatically within the past two years, which seems to have been improving cost of living somewhat (or, ruining less quickly, at least) for the average American, though there is still a lot more to be done.