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Re:What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? by antonymoose on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:14PM (#49174425)
Thank you for the insightful rebuttal!
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Re:What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? by xeromal on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:16PM (#49174449)
It's not a rebuttal. There's no rebuttal to someone's personal story.
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Re:What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? by antonymoose on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:19PM (#49174494)
Go pick a metro, find a decent neighborhood, price out a house. Go price out insurance for a family. Go price out a minivan, go price out student loans, groceries, clothes, a cheap vacation for a week a year, car repairs, home repairs… the list goes on.

It’s not a “personal story” - the finances of living are a bitch and my math isn’t magically different, I’m not keeping up with any Jones’.

I have a lesser standard of living than my (single) mother buying a home in the 1980s here in the 2020s.

Offer a real rebuttal or kindly piss off, this isn’t Reddit.

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Re:What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation? by xeromal on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:21PM (#49174515)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

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