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post 1692052103 10-21-2023, 07:58 AM
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All Things Being Equal We Are Already There

They tell us that the jobs number is good, but don't say that full time jobs are down, while the new jobs are part time and mostly working for the government. Retail sales numbers came in strong, don't think about the fact that the same amount of stuff is being sold [or less] and it is just that the prices are higher.

A comparison of present economic conditions to 1930.



Cliffs:

If you only calculated using a straight inflation factor comparing 1930 to the present:

- in 1930 the average home was $3,9000- going by inflation the average home would now be $71,000 but in reality the average is $416,000

- for food if you were to purchase $100 in food in 1930 it could feed a family for 6 months- that would be equivalent to $2,059 today and would perhaps last an average family for 3 months

- in 1930 gasoline was 10 cents a gallon- based on inflation that would be $1.73 today, but the national average is $3.55

- a car was an unusual purchase in 1930, but if you had one the average was $860 which should translate to $15,000 however the current average is $48,000

- the average income in 1930 was $4,800 which today would translate to $85,000, but the real average is $56,000


And sure, houses on average were smaller, but you couldn't touch the average home prices even if you double or triple that number.
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post 1692052243 10-21-2023, 08:01 AM
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You're 100% right. Career jobs are way down. The entire jobs report is propped up by bullsh*t retail jobs.


You go on any job site and start searching for any range of keywords and all you'll see is a bunch of ghost jobs posted up being recycled over and over. Recruiters aren't reaching out like they used to either because there's no one actually hiring sh*t.
post 1692052933 10-21-2023, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted By TryingMen
You're 100% right. Career jobs are way down. The entire jobs report is propped up by bullsh*t retail jobs.


You go on any job site and start searching for any range of keywords and all you'll see is a bunch of ghost jobs posted up being recycled over and over. Recruiters aren't reaching out like they used to either because there's no one actually hiring sh*t.
No lies detected.

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post 1692053143 10-21-2023, 08:28 AM
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We're in the middle of a huge economic storm right now and they're trying to tell us everything is great
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post 1692053283 10-21-2023, 08:31 AM
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you people are so FUKKING selfish right now, don't you know we need to send more money to foreign nations who don't do jack schit for us?
post 1692053303 10-21-2023, 08:32 AM
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I been noticing for years now that the job situation is mostly bullchit. There’s a reason why the anti work subreddit is growing like wildfire.

Having said that, I think that ”work” - in it’s most fundamental sense - is important and good for the soul. My issues are mostly with modern day work, i.e. “jobs”, and the format/conditions/compensation they entail.
post 1692053433 10-21-2023, 08:36 AM
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Would like to remind everyone they released Covid and used ubi equivalent / ppp payouts to kick the can for Wall Street and capitalize consumers since normal economic conditions could no longer do so.

I would expect a similar type event by February of next year. Either war / electric grid failure / immigration crisis / another virus.

Doesn’t matter which major event they can blow up, they need the disaster to cover for the recovery which handles the capitalization of consumers without people realizing they are using it to avoid “systemically important” investors who used algorithms to make a joke out of the stock market and leveraged it into an unimaginably bad position by human standards, but don’t worry the algorithm sees an out “at the expense of everyone else”. Capitalism really has ended up in the same place communism ends up much quicker. Corrupt human nature has compromised and broken it.
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Originally Posted By alltrapbrah
I been noticing for years now that the job situation is mostly bullchit. There’s a reason why the anti work subreddit is growing like wildfire.

Having said that, I think that ”work” - in it’s most fundamental sense - is important and good for the soul. My issues are mostly with modern day work, i.e. “jobs”, and the format/conditions/compensation they entail.
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post 1692053593 10-21-2023, 08:40 AM
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post 1692053853 10-21-2023, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted By Duckliver
Would like to remind everyone they released Covid and used ubi equivalent / ppp payouts to kick the can for Wall Street and capitalize consumers since normal economic conditions could no longer do so.

I would expect a similar type event by February of next year. Either war / electric grid failure / immigration crisis / another virus.

Doesn’t matter which major event they can blow up, they need the disaster to cover for the recovery which handles the capitalization of consumers without people realizing they are using it to avoid “systemically important” investors who used algorithms to make a joke out of the stock market and leveraged it into an unimaginably bad position by human standards, but don’t worry the algorithm sees an out “at the expense of everyone else”. Capitalism really has ended up in the same place communism ends up much quicker. Corrupt human nature has compromised and broken it.
I feel the same way. They need a crisis to keep the ridiculous spending rolling. Notice that somehow the money isn't going to the people on the bottom.

Just heard that Janet Yellen made a statement that the US government can not afford the interest on our debt at the current interest rate. Watched a video last night which looked atour government spending rate- $2.2T per year for the last 3+ years however in the last 134 days since the debt ceiling was set aside the burn rate as increased to $5T a year.


I think we will see some sort of crisis either to kick the can one more time or to roll out a new monetary system.
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post 1692054463 10-21-2023, 09:00 AM
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Tours over


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post 1692055103 10-21-2023, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted By Anachron
Are you ready to eat bugs yet?
No.

Got a lot of canned goods between here and there.

Still recommend stocking up the ones you like when you can.
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post 1692055373 10-21-2023, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted By Voidgaze
No lies detected.

Brb "Are you hiring?"

Brb "...Well, we'reacceptingapplications..."
Not to mention bullsh!t side hustles probably getting counted as jobs. Someone makes money as an Uber driver for the first time, gets counted as a job added. Someone does door dash for a few days, considered as a job added.
post 1692055583 10-21-2023, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted By jtaylor2010
Not to mention bullsh!t side hustles probably getting counted as jobs. Someone makes money as an Uber driver for the first time, gets counted as a job added. Someone does door dash for a few days, considered as a job added.
Was talking to the last Uber driver I rode with about what he does. His main job is taxi driver but you can’t get enough shifts or hours. He gets paid significantly less doing Uber. He hates that he got forced into driving Uber. Fukking useful idiots doing work all over the place.

I had tried to get a taxi for 45 minutes, just voicemails and online requests.
post 1692055603 10-21-2023, 09:18 AM
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Here is the government debt video-




Funny and true...did a search for the statement by Janet Yellen and the results focus on the high interest rate being "manageable for now" and that the "US economy is in a good place".
To arrive at Yellen’s 1% figure, assuming debt grows at the rate of GDP, interest rates must be much lower.

In time, a weighted average interest rate of 0.85% would put the nation’s interest expense at 1% of GDP.

When Janet Yellen tells us the debt cost to GDP ratio will be 1% over the next ten years, she is really saying interest rates will be below 1% for the next ten years.

Part of Janet Yellen’s job is to exude confidence to its investors. In this case, it means telling the public that the current jump in interest expenses will not last. While she would probably prefer to be straightforward and say interest rates will be much lower, she must also be sympathetic to the Fed’s job of getting inflation down. Therefore, to walk the party line, she must speak in code, so to speak.

Whether you agree with Yellen’s projection or not, the following CBO graph projecting interest costs as a percentage of tax revenues, courtesy of Bianco Research, highlights that the government has no choice but lower for longer interest rates. The current level of interest rates will bankrupt the nation.

Rates have to come down. Historically there is an officially recognized recession within an average of 11 months of rate cuts beginning.
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M1 money supply quintuples over night, alongside a low gini coefficient, and bam. It’s no wonder why it feels like the lower middle class is feeling choked out so aggressively.

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Originally Posted By birchkyle
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You can’t click on links in the post title you fukking retard
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Originally Posted By birchkyle
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I’m not doing that much work, put it in the body of the post. Or else just fist yourself with your right hand.
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