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Old 05-09-2019, 08:38 PM
 
Location: East Coast of the United States
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I know I sound like a broken record.

But the answer is political propaganda.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/polit...s-sources.html

People are being fed false news all the time.
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Old 05-09-2019, 08:40 PM
 
Location: Aurora Denveralis
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Which certainly has nothing to do with the fact that all news agencies, in all mediums, have become wholly rating, advertising and revenue-driven.

And there's idiots who defend this because, you know, capitalism.
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Old 05-09-2019, 09:55 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV
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Yet there you are, wasting all your superiority hanging out with them. Except when you drop in here to spew infantile economic darwinism based on massive ignorance of how economic systems actually work.
Yeaaah you have no clue about economics as I’ve seen from your posts here, but you think whining about everything will maybe, what, change capitalism? Haha ok dude. I like the memes and jokes posted on /childfree, they’re funny! But I have learned not to take people on reddit overly seriously. It’s a great resource for some things, video game related especially.
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Old 05-11-2019, 04:19 AM
 
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Just a few reasons..



~Wages are just as bad as they were 20 years ago. Haven't gone up at all.

~Lack of entry level jobs and employer training. Unskilled jobs abundant. Student loan debt still at record highs.

~Housing/apartment price inflation continues going up at least 2x faster than income growth. Record homelessness.
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Old 05-11-2019, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Spain
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~Wages are just as bad as they were 20 years ago. Haven't gone up at all.
Ruh?

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Old 05-11-2019, 08:17 AM
 
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Just a few reasons..



~Wages are just as bad as they were 20 years ago. Haven't gone up at all.

~Lack of entry level jobs and employer training. Unskilled jobs abundant. Student loan debt still at record highs.

~Housing/apartment price inflation continues going up at least 2x faster than income growth. Record homelessness.
You might want to leave this stuff to people who have some idea what they are talking about. Just a thought.

1. Your claim that wages haven't gone up at all in 20 years is false. You are either lying or you've been fed bad information.

1.1 The reality is tempered wage growth has much to do with the fact the Federal Reserve has been able to navigate the last 10 years without a recession.

https://www.frbatlanta.org/chcs/wage...h-tracker.aspx

2. There is a sea of unfilled entry level jobs.

3. The number of homeless ( the homeless as a percentage of the population has fallen even faster) has been trending down for well over a decade.

https://ourworldindata.org/homelessness
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Old 05-11-2019, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Aurora Denveralis
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Oh, wow, look at that... a 9% increase over 20 years... two decades in which every other indicator was on afterburners. And a good part of that increase only in the last two years.
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Old 05-11-2019, 02:56 PM
 
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Oh, wow, look at that... a 9% increase over 20 years... two decades in which every other indicator was on afterburners. And a good part of that increase only in the last two years.
The other guy was wrong no matter your distortions and obfuscation noted.
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Old 05-11-2019, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Aurora Denveralis
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The other guy was wrong no matter your distortions and obfuscation noted.
Ah. Pointing out the shallow rise - but, by god, it is a rise, you're right - is "obfuscation."

Got it. Ain't econ fun, when the most trivial and isolated numerical point "wins" an argument?
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Old 05-11-2019, 04:00 PM
 
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Ah. Pointing out the shallow rise - but, by god, it is a rise, you're right - is "obfuscation."

Got it. Ain't econ fun, when the most trivial and isolated numerical point "wins" an argument?
For the year ending this past March "real" wages were up 1.3%. If you'd like for me to explain what the means let me know. That's neither trivial nor isolated.
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