Despite Trump's economic claims, with rising tariffs, just 30% of Americans say they can meet their costs per a poll from Data for Progress.
  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    28·
    2 days ago

    Its messed up how in the US, the real economy (IE jobs, goods produced, production facilities, wage rates, costs of food, cost of housing, eviction rates, homelessness numbers), is so completely divorced from the “imaginary economy” of the finance sector and the stock market. The WSJ can choose financial metrics and fabricate almost any story they want to, because “success” is never demonstrated not by domestic production, but adjusting the time-span width of plots of the stock market to show booms, or GDP which incorrectly shows value actually produced by global south workers, or labor rates that don’t include those who have dropped out, or who are in the gig economy and without stable employment.

    The transition from an industrial economy to one based on finance capital and real estate is pretty much complete. Most countries don’t import much from the US, because it produces nothing of value. The only thing I hear all the older boomers in my home town talk about, the only game left in town, is real estate speculation, not actual production.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    3 days ago

    Im weeks away from one year unemployment. Maybe my situation is special but have never had issues getting work like this before.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      14·
      3 days ago

      In a similar boat. 3 years ago I got like 3 offers after like two months of interviewing, plus a bunch of other interviews I bombed. Now I’m not even getting phone screens, despite having more experience.

      AI is eating everyone’s lunch on top of everything else

      • anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml
        3·
        2 days ago

        AI is eating everyone’s lunch on top of everything else

        Is AI eating everyone’s lunch or is AI a pretext by dipshit finance bros to claim greater productivity than they actually have by investing oodles of resources into environmentally devastating LLM’s that both aren’t true AI and are marginally useful at best for email composition about why you wasted the company’s money?

        • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
          3·
          2 days ago

          Well, the lunch is being eaten either way. Personally I feel like “AI” stuff is not great for anybody except the people selling it (and even they are often losing money)

          A couple CEOs have made statements about how they’re not hiring anyone in favor of “AI”. Somehow Saint Luigi hasn’t visited any of them, but I think a couple had to reverse course after the “AI” was bad.

          Labor should unite. We don’t need infinite growth and profits. Dignity and a sustainable environment are more important

    • nnullzz@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 days ago

      Same. Pretty decent resume as software engineer, 100s of applications, and like 3 interviews total, none of which hired me.

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
    154·
    3 days ago

    That’s been the case for years. We get our struggles acknowledged now that it’s under Trump. We were gaslit under Biden’s recession.

    • davel@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      151·
      3 days ago

      It’s like I said last August:

      If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.

      You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.

      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        This is exactly how I’ve tried to explain to people that the Dems are the greater evil, and the GOP the lesser. The Dems work in the cover provided by the media & their base, and end up doing far more damage under far less scrutiny and transparency.

        Not that it’s a worthwhile distinction at this point. They both need to be stopped, for the survival of the species.

  • nightmare786@leminal.spaceEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    recently stumbled across an article from 2018 that said pretty much the same thing. the more things change the more they stay the same.