Caræsten 🇵🇸: it's very funny that people keep insisting the economy is fine when everyone's feeling the threat of precarity so much more acutely, you could be making more money and seeing your friends foreclosed on or in massive medical debt and you're not gonna actually feel secure

it's very funny that people keep insisting the economy is fine when everyone's feeling the threat of precarity so much more acutely, you could be making more money and seeing your friends foreclosed on or in massive medical debt and you're not gonna actually feel secure

WASHINGTON (AP) — US homelessness, tied to soaring rents and loss of pandemic aid, up 12% to highest level since reporting began in 2007.

i had a mild panic attack yesterday watching Godzilla Minus One yesterday not from the monster attacks but just from how the main character was able to actually build a life and how i felt worse off than a man regularly having a 300 foot tall kaiju regularly killing off his loved ones

It’s bad politics that’s the message a certain party keeps running with. I know people who have to do all their shopping at the dollar tree now.

Also love seeing the headlines that “inflation is down”, yet why the absolute fuck is everything still becoming prohibitively expensive

lol like, yes, inflation is down, but that just means it's inflating at a slightly slower rate than before, but we still have inflation, so

every day i log into this website i see some massive tech co or media conglomo laying off like 800 of their workers, hundreds of journalists are losing jobs daily but like, that nasdaq tho? stockholders are holding their stocks even tighter so the chart has a better squiggle on it?

everybody's doing great in this economy—and none more so than the billionaire geniuses its debts have been pinned upon

Sources: Musk gave verbal guarantees to some US banks that they would not lose money on the Twitter deal; banks face serious losses on the "uninvestable" debt (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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