To anyone impacted, get violent against the proper targets. Billionaires, corporations, etc
Otherwise nothing will change.
Have you not been paying attention?
Violence begets violence & usually just results in mutually assured destruction if the overall balance of strengths is relatively similar (they have money, military, & now hired thugs, we mostly just have numbers and decentralization).
I recommend subterfuge and sabotage instead - particularly by those programming & managing all the computers that make everything happen nowadays.
Just wait until the new fed takes his seat. He going fix all this at least it will look that way to Maga. But rest of us know we are all fucked hard.
My gf and I both make good money. Granted we actually put away a chunk for retirement and we used to be saving for a house…
Recently her brakes needed to be replaced after I had to get new tires. Suddenly we’re eating a lot more beans, cancelling Netflix…
I don’t know what folks are doing because my last lifeline is ceasing retirement contributions to make ends meet or getting an additional job. Or just pushing overtime until my boss asks questions.
It’s wild.
Same. I started working a second job 2 years ago. The goal was to do it to be able to save more and to pay for a vacation. But now we’re barely saving anything, not talking about vacation, considering selling one of our cars, and I’m still working 2 jobs.
My main job believes in a 4% performance based raise at the end of each year. That raise has already been essentially erased.
Me and several of my friends have cashed in our retirement funds because what is the point?
Mine was due to legal fees over custody of three children, but I’m kinda glad I did, because this shit makes those dollars worthless anyway.
Is gas not included? Cuz that shit is up 50% at least! Can’t wait for May’s report
Nope, energy and food don’t get counted because a) respected economist: “tHeYrE tOo VoLaTiLe!” b) me: fucking rich bastards and the government economists that work for them lie like rugs (the reasonable truth is probably somewhere in between those two but I got too frustrated to be reasonable like ten years ago)
e; Actually nope, I screwed up and assumed CNN was reporting core inflation (which does exclude food and energy prices and gets used for adjusting the payouts of a lot of different benefit programs and such), but they decided to go with overall inflation. Core is at 2.8% overall is at 3.8.
CNN is MAGA now, so you are only going to be seeing the best case scenarios going forward. If they are pushing 2.8% as good, you know they are just polishing the MAGA Turd.
You can’t believe ANYTHING this government says. Crime is WAY down? Don’t believe it. Inflation isn’t so bad? Don’t believe it. Jobs numbers are up? Don’t believe it.
MAGA is never going to release anything that makes them look bad. They’ll even game stuff that makes them look good, just to look like the bestest there’s ever been!
Oh, okay, so you’re just talking out of your ass. You’re thinking of the Core CPI, but there are others, just as valid, that take it into account and which are used in things like legislation. It is because they’re too volatile, and you want Core CPI to give a more stable understanding of which direction the economy is generally moving. Such a crazy, whacky idea to have multiple metrics that take into account different factors; fucking bonkers, honestly. What will those filthy, mustache-twirling government economists think of next?
And by the way: 3.8% does include all items. 3.8% is not the Core CPI you have sand in your groin over; it’s the CPI-U.
Maybe you can make fun of the “respected economist” when you’re ready to present a macroecon 101-level or higher understanding of CPI and get your facts straight about the article I’m sure you actually read.
Edit: Here’s the press release, for context. Less food and energy is 2.8%.
Edit 2: Zero acknowledgement they’re objectively wrong about food and energy not being included in the 3.8%. Very cool, Lemmy.
Fuck off with the Heritage Foundation bullshit. Maybe having multiple metrics for slicing the same underlying pool of data could be useful, but then dumbasses with PhDs get lost in their little numbers and do stupid shit like “Hey, if we used core CPI for cost of living adjustments in benefits programs that’d save the government a bunch of money,” forgetting that poor people actually have to buy food and energy because they don’t give a shit because they’re bad people.
Maybe when our governments stop using “expert” economist advice to fuck over poor people and give taxpayer money hand over fist to wealthy scumbags I would be open to some more abstracted metrics and have a bit of trust in the eggheads, but since I’ve spent my entire adult life watching highly educated fucking idiots do the exact opposite fuck it, core CPI is a scam.
Oh, okay, so you’re not even going to acknowledge you had no idea what you were talking aboutand claimed the 3.8% didn’t include food and energy.
Cool.
I mean, I’m never going to admit it to you because I ragebaited myself at the beginning of this and now you’re putting an unseemly amount of effort into defending evil shitheads, but I hope I’d add an edit to my first comment in an effort to promote factual accuracy in the community generally
I’m surprised there’s not blood in the streets already
