Aged Like Milk

With few exceptions, everyone I know has mentioned that their workplace has either downsized, is in the process of downsizing, and/or is on a hiring freeze at a minimum. Where do the people who have become unemployed directly and indirectly because of the federal government's decisions find a job? I know they think suddenly everybody's going to be rushing out to those seasonal agricultural jobs that barely pay above minimum wage (if that) and have no benefits, but do they really think data scientists and education coordinators are going to be well suited to picking okra and processing tomatoes even if they were willing to do it?

Simultaneously, the prices of necessities seem to be on a steep incline again.

The government is coming at working people directly and from both ends.

One problem is, at least conceptually, that last time this shit happened, we could blame it on the ramifications of covid and at least the better informed among us knew it was a worldwide phenomenon. This time around, for the USA at least, it's self inflicted. Much of this, if not virtually all of it, was avoidable.

The other problem, in my opinion, is that people are literally living in completely different and seemingly mutually exclusive realities. To my conservative acquaintances, the cost of eggs are down which is fantastic and even though last year the price on that was all Biden's fault, now that the prices on so many other things have gone up due to Trump's tariffs or threat thereof, suddenly the story is that the president doesn't control the prices of groceries. How do you even find common ground with those types of "facts"? You can't.