My 80 year old mom is driving for DoorDash in a car she's borrowed from me.
They may not call it a depression, but our experience tells us it is.
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Since the pandemic, the economy and jobs market have recovered
Lie from the jump. The whole article is a lie, unless you're the upper arm of the k.
Gell-Mann amnesia, indeed.
Economists are generally the last ones you can trust about bad economic tidings.
For one, almost all are paid by monied interests that don't want to spark a rout in the markets.
For another, they tend towards self impressed arrogance, talking down to everyone that didn't read their books, even as they have been consistently wrong.
Disclaimer: I don't have the best record on predicting markets either, which apparently can remain solvent longer than I can remain sane.
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It used to be that if you spent $100 going out, you'd be talking about a nice restaurant dinner, a movie, and a couple of drinks at a club afterwards.
Now $100 is just the dinner.
It's a month's rent if you want to go to a big concert.
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It's clear most modern Economists are wankers who don't understand people or the bigger picture outside of monetary economic figures.
I say most because economics gets interesting when you talk about non monetary economics.
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