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Re:Second-quarter US GDP growth revised up to 4.2 percent on... by mikeash on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:13AM (#17876003)
If it doesn’t make you better off, what’s the point?
Re:Second-quarter US GDP growth revised up to 4.2 percent on... by austhrow743 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @05:45PM (#17881079)
If paying more for medical care isn't getting you better medical care, making you being better off, then the problem is elsewhere. Not stagnant income.
Re:Second-quarter US GDP growth revised up to 4.2 percent on... by lovich on Friday August 31, 2018 @12:58AM (#17883056)
Going off what the other poster said, when you don't see a benefit from the system you don't really care about the reason why. When a large portion of society doesn't see a benefit from the system, they're not really gonna care that the economy is "better than ever" and ar going to start engaging in activity that the current economic/social system finds destructive, because they will be trying to replace that system
Re:Second-quarter US GDP growth revised up to 4.2 percent on... by mikeash on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:12PM (#17881268)
The ultimate point here is that economic gains aren’t improving things for the average person. The exact reason for that is secondary.