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Coke Zero drinkers are not persons in any morally or intellectually significant way, they’re philosophical zombies

@TheRealKitty019 And they're talking about household income. Please for the love of God read. But I'm done. You continue to lie about me. Good luck.

@zippkode I cited the fucking census bureau you retard. census.gov/library/public…

The collapse of academia is most acutely visible with the "economist" class, where virtually everything they produce is complete garbage. In this case, their methodology is completely fucked and that's why they can't accurately model why people feel so bad. The numbers are all good, insofar as the "established metrics" go (and as long as you're a Keynesian) so CLEARLY it's just "vibes" and people don't actually realize how good they have it. The problem is, of course, that there's three layers to this; the liminal, subliminal and super-liminal; think of them as what is, what you feel and what you imagine. Within Freudian psychology the liminal (Ego) mind balances against the super-liminal (super-ego) and subliminal (id) and while the theory is useful, it's incomplete. In truth, each segment weighs against and analyses different pieces of your condition; what you are experiencing now, how you feel now, and how you expect to feel later. Liminally, then, the average person is struggling quite severely. Several price shocks have hit, again and again over the last 20 years to the point that your purchasing power is probably the lowest it's been since 1932. The numbers say things are good, and conditions might individually be "better" with more toys, more entertainment, more, more, more, but people can still compare the now to the past and while Zoomies are still young, we can remember before the '08 recession (or in Canada's case, before Trudeau). Thus the subliminal comes in, the id, your heuristics-based analysis. Here, now, everything is measurably, objectively worse in every way. Our societies are more dangerous than they have ever been- yes ever. Crime is higher than ever, and in ways that are just utterly inconceivable to normal people who haven't adjusted their heuristics. Cases like the Rape Gangs in Britain, or random subway murders in NYC, people being set on fire at random, the racial killings of white teenagers, hostile governments focused entirely on crushing peaceful nativists while ignoring serious crimes and Canada- because I am one- becoming a narco-state. These are things a normal person, plugged into the normal media, either can't talk about or doesn't consciously know about it, but they can feel it. Everyone can feel the tension, they can feel that there's something off, they can feel that it's all just getting worse. And what of the super-liminal then? Well if your conditions are materially worse than your parents', and you feel terrible about everything, it's then really difficult for the mind to then ignore all that data and pretend like things can get better. Everyone is, instead, stuck in a short-term risk mitigation mindset. Consumer spending happens now because you won't have that money in 12 months. Order food now because it will cost 30% more next year. Go on the trip now because the planes literally will not have fuel in 12 weeks. These aren't rational choices people make, they're irrational, animalistic responses to the conditions they're presented with. The only rational agent in this equation is the liminal mind that's too pre-occupied with paying bills to overcome the id's need for comfort and the super-ego's despair. And so we reach the point; economists are incapable of modelling this or correctly reading the data they're presented with, either because they're just stupid or because they're ideologically forbidden from "noticing". As a consequence, then, their models all fail. Every single one, and they've been failing for a hundred years now, they get literally everything wrong and can't figure out why every economic reform they do, why every single time they just print money, everything gets worse for everyone. A hundred years of economics, everything since FDR essentially, needs to be expunged from American Law for there to be any hope of recovery in Zoomers' lifetimes and what then? By the time it's fixed, a large ratio will have passed by their fertile years, and that population crunch hits no matter what. The only quick, here-and-now fix is to do the unthinkable and actually literally just mass cull people as they turn 70 and seize Boomers' assets as collateral for whatever meagre government pensions are left for when they retire. And then, on top of that, you need to remove every single migrant that is a net drain now, or of a group that is a net drain; the system just can't recover with them parasitizing off it. The number-1 cost for Millennials and Zoomers is housing, the number-2 cost is taxes. The solution for Number 1 will increase their income dramatically and from there, it's just getting taxes down to a manageable level. Doing these things will, actually, just solve a huge chunk of Millennials and Zoomers' economic and social woes.

@TheRealKitty019 One of us certainly is. Probably the personal who just conflated personal income taxes with household income, but who's to say?

@zippkode @Teltae $84,000 (US Census 2024) doesn’t get revised down to $45,000 if you only adjust for inflation, again, you’re retarded and getting bamboozled by numbers and terms you don’t understand.

@TheRealKitty019 @Teltae When the graph says real income in the header, what do you think that means?

Holy shit you are retarded lmfao. 43k-45k isn’t an 18% growth, that means from FED INFLATION ALONE, the average INDIVIDUAL is 20% poorer now. By CPI, 30.3% POORER.

@TheRealKitty019 @Teltae Also stop lying. It's embarrassing.

@TheRealKitty019 @Teltae Do I think the line that keeps going up paints a different picture? Yes. Yes, I do. What kind of question is that?

@SenatorLuma @Prolemasses We need Subway to bring back the $5 footlong. For the good of America.

a lot of people are pretending not to understand that what americans want is for price levels to go down. they don’t care about real wage increases or inflation rates, they want nominal price levels to decrease. there is nothing you can do about this.

@TheRealKitty019 @Teltae Household income is always fake, whether it agrees with me or not. Individual income is the only thing that matters.

@zippkode @Teltae Oh so when the data doesn’t agree with you it’s fake, but when it does it’s gospel. You’re terrible at this.

@TheRealKitty019 @Teltae Also, unless you'd like to take a officially proctored IQ test and bet on the results, your claims that I'm an idiot ring pretty hollow. Consider not lying in the future.

@TheRealKitty019 @Teltae That's real income, so you shouldn't adjust it again, and it's household income, so it's almost always fake news.

@bdquinn Just like headlines must convey the right vibe of the article because no one reads. No one will look at your graph beyond the shape. The shape better be right.

@bdquinn You don't always have to start it at zero. But you should remember that the general public will always assume that you do. So if you're making a graph for a general audience, which includes every graph on Twitter, you better start at zero.

I think the "always start the y-axis at zero" people are like the "you can't end a sentence in a preposition" people. It's an arbitrary "rule" they learned at some point and just haven't let go despite there being numerous circumstances under which the rule isn't actually best.

@Teltae @TheRealKitty019 Wages have not stayed flat. Real incomes went up something like 1% a year from covid until last year, across all incomes

Base wages for basic entry-level labor in my area, yes, even in my quaint small town Seattle with its handful of rosy-eyed new companies like Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, have not increased much, if at all. Right at $20 or less. For like, 15 years. Prices have risen considerably in virtually all areas, wages have stayed flat. What the fuck do you mean I have more purchasing power? What delusional fantasy land do you live in?

@jacobjbg That's supposed to be okay. Call files for actual files, not things that might become fouls. Bad rule.

If you’re mad at this then you really gotta take a deep breath and watch more basketball without the timeline in your hand. Fox is right in his landing space!!!

@5NV2000 @AntipodeanBob @TheRealKitty019 It's a real award. It's given for real work. It's a fake Nobel. It was invented in 1968.

@zippkode @AntipodeanBob @TheRealKitty019 The Nobel Prize is fake but the economics that wins it is really real (because economists believe in it) despite the economists being motivated by a fake award? Don't think you have given this much thought.

@TheRealKitty019 @AntipodeanBob Lying about what words mean is one thing. Lying about me is much worse. Good luck, have fun. I hope you get the world you deserve.

@zippkode @AntipodeanBob The volume and quality of goods you can purchase with the dollar. Inflation decreases that dollar’s purchasing power. It is literally true that 1 dollar in 2026 is worth less than it was in 2019, 2007, 1998, 1984, etc., and wages haven’t kept up with inflation. Retard.

@TheRealKitty019 @AntipodeanBob So when you say "purchasing power," what do you mean? Because it has a normal meaning outside of your private one.

According to “data” that I’ve already disregarded because it doesn’t accurately model how people feel. And your response was to then post. That data. That doesn’t accurately model how people feel. In response to a post, about how people feel. Do you understand? Can you?

@TheRealKitty019 @AntipodeanBob I read that. I read the whole schizophrenic thing. You made claims about material reality that are not true.

@zippkode @AntipodeanBob Paragraph 2, you illiterate mongrel.

@TheRealKitty019 @AntipodeanBob You made a specific factual claim. Not a claim about feelings. A claim about material reality. That claim was a lie.

@zippkode @AntipodeanBob “You know how I’ll disprove someone making a point about how the data doesn’t reflect how people feel? By posting that data!”

@Bloodpxy That isn't an excuse. I think people have slipped in their understanding of how serious marriage is. We're playing for keeps. If you got divorced, you're mostly doing a very bad thing.

@zippkode Says someone who clearly doesn’t know what societal pressure is and the desire to be seen as “normal” by family

Seeing a lot of ppl bashing him, claiming he wasted 14 years of her life… Mind you he was 17, and she was 25 when they married… also A LOT of gay people throughout time have gotten into marriages they didn’t want. So idk why ya’ll are villainizing him.