🤓 "Uhrm axetually, inflation is dropping and wages are slightly rising, so people shouldn't complain because the economy is actually great. They're really just imagining things and suffering because they weren't responsible with their covid checks."

Seriously, liberals think that's all people are upset about. They don't recognize that already existing trends and enshitification of capitalist products are making things suck for people. They don't appreciate that housing inflation has been way too high for decades, and that cheaper nonessential junk doesn't make up for it. Inelastic demand that the government will not address because politicians don't understand the struggles of new homeowners and renters.

When most people can't win at the game, they don't care to uphold it.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't leave out healthcare inflation. It's as bad or worse than housing inflation, but it's easy to forget until you need it.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but as of July 2022 the credit bureaus don't report medical debt. After I got a surprise $5,000 bill in the mail after my copay for an ER visit where the doctor spent 5 minutes misdiagnksing me and sending me to to wrong specialist, I was able to tell them to go to hell.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fucking tell me about it 😭

[–] pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone is going to see this and downvote you because they saw you use the word "liberal" negatively and immediately think you're a right-winger or something.

But yeah, if the media outlets would understand that "the economy" (rich peoples yacht money) is based on garbage metrics, maybe they wouldn't act so offended when people call them out on it

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This place has become more liberal recently. I don't love smug leftists who think being a socialist automatically makes you virtuous, but it is annoying to deal with people that aren't fully awake to reality. Capitalism is the problem, and while being scant on solutions and strategies is awful, not even seeing the problems is worse.

[–] pthaloblue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just don't understand how some people think rejecting capitalism is going too far. Like it's bad, everyone knows it's destroying us, it takes nothing to admit it. Feels great to be anti-capitalist.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

If you don't think capitalism is an evil system, you're not paying attention.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago

I really don't think people even understand inflation enough to realize "inflation is dropping" just means prices are still going up but only a little at a time instead of the near doubling it was a year or 2 ago and how little people have been wage matched to the stipl increasing costs.