• thedruid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Jesus, where has everyone been? Through this period of supposed best economy ever( before trump made it even worse) I was laid off. 4 times.

    From 2013 to 2024. And I’ve been unemployed for over a year. Jobs are under paying, under manned, and overly abused.

    People have been week to week for decades. We’re just myopic, selfish zombies who don’t look past ourselves to see how bad others have it

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      And corporations keep bragging about “record profits”.

      Guess who the money they make is coming from. And every quarter they come for more.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      No no you don’t understand, being paycheck to paycheck under Obama and Biden was good, being paycheck to paycheck under Trump is bad. The poors aren’t important unless the media can find a way to market it as somehow being Anti-Trump when they donate to him in appeasement to his ego.

      Stocks were up for both until COVID and the Tarrifs, so that’s what matters most.

      EDIT: If downvotes were dollar bills, maybe I could afford more things under either president!

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.online
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      2 days ago

      We’re about to see wages go down after stagnating for years, often falling behind inflation. Look at tech where there are too many employees, new graduates. Supply and demand. People are going to have to notice.