• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Tldr:

    1. Author doesn’t understand “the economy” is just about corporate profits

    2. Wages are (slightly) up, but not enough to afford food and housing.

    3. Author looks at mean instead of median retirement savings and say everything is great.

    If you’re wondering why she has such bad takes, she’s a self described “crypto reporter” who was trying to convince us inflation was a good thing a while ago.

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/inflation-good-bad-winners-losers/index.html

    She’s completely detached from reality

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    Read Hunter Thompson’s book “Hell’s Angels.” There’s a section where he breaks down the economics of being a biker/hippie/artist circa 1970. An Angel could get a job as a Union stevedore and earn enough in six months to live on the road for two years. A part time waitress could support herself and her boyfriend.

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      The Good Doctor is the only person who died before the shitshow we find ourselves in today both politically and economically whose opinions on it I really want to hear. In football terms he and his writings always had incredible down the field vision in part because he had such a firm grasp on the cultural flows of the present and the national temperature of the US people.

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        Now I have to dig out “…On The Campaign Trail” and reread the part where he writes about talking football with Nixon.

        A lot of people told me that I should watch the series “The Deuce” with Maggie Gyllenhaal. I stopped watching ten minutes into the first episode because they had a pimp recite some of Thompson’s wisdom as if the writers had come up with it on their own.

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          Hunter’s influence is everywhere but it is infuriating when someone tries to claim some sort of brilliance he wrote down 50 years ago. I need to read hells angels again it’s been a decade at this point but it will have to wait until I both start and finish the illuminatist tirlogy. I read his 9/11 article regularly just to get a fix for his particular voice and perspective

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      My dude, there are hundreds of jobs available that have no benefits, no security, no retirement investment, no advancement, no personal satisfaction, and don’t pay enough to live on. Gen Z should be thrilled at such a golden (shower) of opportunity!

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      Well they inherited a market that was golden for the Boomers and GenX

      Sadly, those two groups, instead of continuing to fight for workers rights like generations before them, grandfathered their rights into contracts in exchange for sacrificing our rights.

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    Having a job doesn’t mean you can afford to live. Ask anyone who has been on minimum wage for the past 50+ years.

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        Be born in a small town hours away from anywhere. All the jobs in your town pay minimum wage. Remember you have no public transportation and no support. Now crawl out of that.

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        Poverty is something very difficult to claw your way out of.

        Although I meant ‘over’ rather than ‘for.’

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        There’s not enough higher level jobs. Someone will work minimum wage their entire life. They deserve to be treated humanely.

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    The problem is not finding a job, it’s finding a job that pays well while not destroying your mental health, and ideally also feeling somewhat rewarding or otherwise meaningful.

    You can earn money doing “something IT” no problem, but say you don’t wanna do webdev, your options are easily cut in half. Don’t wanna do ML/data science either? Half that again. And then you apply what I mentioned above und suddenly you look at a tiny market.

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      Mental health?!?!1! What are you some sort of commie??? I just put my feelings into a bottle of Jack Daniel’s like a REAL ‘MURICAN

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      Based on all of the people I know who work in IT, mental health seems to be a sacrifice that often has to be made in favor of meeting deadlines.

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        That should only be occasional tho. If you struggle to meet deadlines all the time, something is wrong. You’re either understaffed, mismanaged or maliciously exploited.

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          You’re either understaffed, mismanaged or maliciously exploited.

          Sounds like the average American worker to me.