• dragontamer@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The worker shortage continues today. We have record low unemployment, all my friends are working jobs (and some multiple jobs) because their boss doesn’t care enough to check in on them because there’s too much work to do.

    The economy today is rather strong. But there’s some headwinds that I’m seeing (ex: a somewhat isolated freight recession that’s playing into this decline of gasoline prices). Some items in our economy can change rather quickly, so I’m not going to confidently state that everything’s okay. There’s a lot of shakiness here. But nothing suggests yet that we’ve entered a general recession (like say, China has, or some other countries).

    Even my buddy at WeWork hasn’t been fired yet, lol. I know there’s been a lot of tech layoffs, but it seems like there’s so much programming work everywhere, that everyone basically gets rehired instantly.

    There’s troubling signs in some sectors. I’m worried that spreads to the rest of the economy. But those numbers just aren’t there for the “general economy” yet.

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      11 months ago

      We have record low unemployment, all my friends are working jobs (and some multiple jobs)

      Try getting a third job, maybe that will help.

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      11 months ago

      Lmao. Life is okay for you so fuck the statistics. That’s why we can’t get any economic reform in this country and y’all are going to be left wondering why the bottom fell out one of these days.

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        11 months ago

        These people remember me my aunt, that every Christmas buys, like most people rushing at last hour, an artificially inflated octopus, and then gets surprised when it shrinks being put in heat.

        That and the story of the frog being boiled alive without noticing.

        The world didn’t learn in 2008. In 2011 while thousands were protesting and occupying the “walled streets”, the robbers were drinking champagne in the balconies in their fancy suits, smiling and joking on those asking for accountability and reform.

        Things got even greedier than then.
        How the boat its still floating is astounding.

        We can talk about and show statistics and studies on how the biggest corporations cause the most damage in the world, on how the 1% accumulated more than 2/3 of the wealth generated in the last 2 years, how…it doesn’t matter.
        We should have learned during covid.
        The holy economy matters more than any life. Amen 🙏