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BigmanPigman

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7. You're focused on the wrong set of numbers.

Reply to ck4829 (Original post)

Thu Apr 25, 2019, 07:22 PM

Apr 2019

Look at REAL income, not the stock market. Yesterday Elizabeth Warren said that she remembers when she grew up that a family of three could live on one working adult making minimum wage. That has not been the case in 40 years thanks to Reaganomics and greed, etc. Add increased costs in health care, education and rents(forget affording a home) and you have one very stressed out country. Loom at the chart in that article (I did from this other DU post https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2308058) and you will see that it has gotten worse since 2016 when the fucking moron entered our lives and made us go from bad to worse.

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I'm kinda confused about this poll that says Americans are among the most stressed in the world [View all] ck4829 Apr 2019 OP

We work more, we have greater wealth disparity and what we do have doesn't go as far as it used to tymorial Apr 2019 #1

h y p e r c a p i t a l i s m. but we're so acclimated Kurt V. Apr 2019 #2

Not everyone is a billionaire CountAllVotes Apr 2019 #3

This is very true. Just to be clear, my comment in the OP is pure, unadulterated snark. ck4829 Apr 2019 #4

Oh thank god CountAllVotes Apr 2019 #6

CEOs trying to get big bonuses by cancelling bathroom breaks and thus applegrove Apr 2019 #5

You're focused on the wrong set of numbers. BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #7

Anyone growing up in the 50's-60's can see the decline so easily. empedocles Apr 2019 #8

Yet, according to the article they are even more stressed out. BigmanPigman Apr 2019 #10

This happens when the quality of your life is dependent on your utility to the capitalist class Yavin4 Apr 2019 #9