If you are young, and get a hit of dopamine when the assets you hold go up in value, don't forget who is really benefitting from asset price manipulation. Late Stage Capitalism does not work for anyone who "works for money." Just running on the hamster wheel.
UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell criticizes Trump's White House UFC fight:
Our government is desecrating its role in society by hosting sporting events. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.
The 2000 dollar is worth 51 cents today.
Almost half its purchasing power gone in one generation.
This is why nominal charts are misleading.
Stocks at record highs.
Wages up.
House prices up.
But the unit you measure everything in keeps shrinking.
If there was to be a societal revolution by the younger generations it must focus upon this.
All government representatives are the same demographic 60+ years-old and unemployed.
Do they have your best interests in mind?
@infraa_@unusual_whales That’s my favorite post you’ve ever made. Most representative chart of actual reality and its issues.
When you also tie-in the fact that wage income is treated with higher tax rates & therefore disincentivized it’s even more disgraceful
Not only is consumer sentiment at record-lows (going back 50+ years), but the measure of "current economic conditions" is even lower
The data for May shows a reading more than 25% lower than the lowest reading of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008
Massie made three fatal errors:
1. Demanding the release of the Epstein files
2. Fighting to limit the national debt
3. Standing up against more forever wars for the Jews.
For that he has been thrown out of the Republican Party.
What a time to be alive.