Finance reporters constantly rediscovering income inequality and ignoring it : chapotraphouse

[+] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

They randomly threw in the crack epidemic in the article as spmething causing boomers to transition in and out of homelessness. Which is like kind of true, but also it's not an externality. I don't know why they need to seek out "externalities" which "cause" poverty and homelessness. Well, I do, because they want to pretend this shit isn't caused by capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Finance reporters understand basic statistics challenge

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It's called homeless billionaires, sweaty

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Distributions? Categories? Sorry we only have quantiles and mean averages on tap for the rest of eternity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Quantiles would actually be somewhat meaningful! Compared to this anyway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Behold: an organic phenomenon we can only study

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Lose your ability to work and get thrown to the wolves

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

1, 2, 3, 4

The boomers joined the homeless corps

kirby-jammin

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The rug is going to be pulled out from everyone eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Don’t suppose we can get one last hurrah from the hippies and panthers?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I swear we get the same article every couple years that just boils down to the establishment playing dumb.

porky-scared-flipped : “Wait….people are ACTUALLY POOR?!? I DiDnT kNoW!1!1!1!1!1 (now that I feigned ignorance, I’m going to go back to my regularly scheduled continuing with feigning ignorance)