• SUMATRAN_RAT@lemmy.world
    4·
    8 months ago

    The gaslighting bothers me the most. “The soft landing worked! The economy is great! Look at all these jobs!” Are they good jobs? Do they pay enough to live? Why has the price of everything gone up so much? It’s eerie being lied to on such a massive scale like this. Very much a superb example of “don’t piss in my ear and tell me it’s raining.”

    • Kalkaline @leminal.space
      1·
      8 months ago

      The CPI is not the economy, the stock market is not the economy, wages and unemployment are not the economy, there is no one measure that effectively captures what’s happening with the economy.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        1·
        8 months ago

        This exactly, and the people making policy are so far out of touch that they don’t even have a friend of a friend that’s as impacted as we are by this insane inflation.

        Worst thing is, we weren’t getting cost of living increases before inflation went batshit.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      It’s purposeful. The system is collapsing and the only option they have is to lie to people to convince them to continue participating.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    The thing that gets me, is that since 2018, I can confidently say that my wage has not even nearly tripled… It’s barely even ~40% higher, and I’ve been on a fairly steady upward path, but the fucking McChicken has increased by almost triple.

    I could not give fewer shits about the numerical prices. It’s the relative price that annoys me. A trip to McDonald’s (or realistically, anywhere) is that much more of a percentage of my paycheque.

    And the icing on this shit-filled cake is that productivity has been on a steady incline the entire time. So we’re doing more work, for the same wages, and prices continue to inflate.

    Where is it all going? (Isn’t it obvious)