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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by carlosjobim on Sunday June 09, 2024 @10:28AM (#40624651)
> Our method for understanding the economy is flawed

There is no misunderstanding. In the Soviet Union, the rulers and their media would every day report on how fantastical the economy was doing and how production was beating records etc. Get used, because this will continue for the rest of your life.

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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by chii on Sunday June 09, 2024 @12:10PM (#40625423)
But there was shortages of everything in the USSR.

What shortages are there in the US?

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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by mperham on Sunday June 09, 2024 @12:31PM (#40625572)
Try to get an appointment to see a doctor.

Food deserts.

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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by lotsoweiners on Sunday June 09, 2024 @01:08PM (#40625876)
> Try to get an appointment to see a doctor

Done this literally dozens of times over the past couple of years for myself, kids, and wife and have never had an issue. Even been offered appointments same or next day. Am I missing something?

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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by Izkata on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:14PM (#40626344)
Are you urban, suburban, or rural?

Something I've been suspicious of for a while now, the farther from the cities the worse it is. Grocery prices, for example, didn't start rising in the city I'm in until a year or more after I started seeing people complaining about it, and a good chunk of them were suburban or rural.

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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by lotsoweiners on Sunday June 09, 2024 @05:12PM (#40627668)
Suburban
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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by GOD_Over_Djinn on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:53PM (#40626614)
Good for you. I had to wait 5 months to see a specialist.
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Re:Economic Termites Are Everywhere: stats hide the experien... by trashface on Sunday June 09, 2024 @09:50PM (#40629360)
You have perhaps read that some people in a few places are having troubles with housing or rent?
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