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Why can't we shake the gloom? It's more than inflation or higher prices.
(open.substack.com)
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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.
Yes, it is almost like this 'strong economy' is not benefiting most people, or something.