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gestures broadly at everything
Name 1 thing that has improved for the average person
I understand this is tongue in cheek and I agree that everything is getting worst. I’ll still answer to your question even if not everyone can enjoy this: the normalization of remote work. Best thing that happened to me because of COVID. I’d even say it outweighs the permanent degradation of my sense of smell from the virus itself. It can’t be taken for granted though and many bosses are pushing back.
As someone who also went full-time remote during COVID, I tend to agree.
However, it’s also felt like trading one cage for another. Except this cage has more yard time.
The article blames COVID for people’s pessimism about the economy and shows some very serious looking spiky graphs. I don’t like how it seems to argue obliquely that the economy is good now but the peasants are too whiny to notice.
I can’t be the only one to feel like the economy (whatever that is) mostly improves through the average person’s misery and mostly suffers whenever we get some kind of windfall. Moreover it’s driving us right into some kind of apocalypse. So if some pollster asks me how confident I am that the economy will get better soon I don’t know what I’ll say to be honest.
I don’t think anyone is blaming just inflation for how people are feeling, but those high prices are still there, and so are a huge list of other things to worry about.
It’s the fucking GOP and their mystery dark money backers.
The right answer is in the last paragraph of the article. Supply chains are not back to normal yet, why should consumer confidence?
It’s called corporate greed. They are the 1% and they own everything. Not hard to figure that one out. Inflation and enshitification. Divide and conquer.
