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| ▲ | ctoth 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > If Gemini 3 DT was better we would have falling prices of electricity and everything else at least Man, I've seen some maintenance folks down on the field before working on them goalposts but I'm pretty sure this is the first time I saw aliens from another Universe literally teleport in, grab the goalposts, and teleport out. | |
| ▲ | WarmWash an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | You might call me crazy, but at least in 2024, consumers spent ~1% less of their income on expenses than 2019[2], which suggests that 2024 is more affordable than 2019. This is from the BLS consumer survey report released in dec[1] [1]https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm [2]https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/consumer-expenditures/2019/ Prices are never going back to 2019 numbers though | | |
| ▲ | gowld an hour ago | parent [-] | | That's an improper analysis. First off, it's dollar-averaging every category, so it's not "% of income", which varies based on unit income. Second, I could commit to spending my entire life with constant spending (optionally inflation adjusted, optionally as a % of income), by adusting quality of goods and service I purchase. So the total spending % is not a measure of affordability. | | |
| ▲ | WarmWash 18 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Almost everyone lifestyle ratchets, so the handful that actually downgrade their living rather than increase spending would be tiny. This part of a wider trend too, where economic stats don't align with what people are saying. Which is most likley explained by the economic anomaly of the pandemic skewing peoples perceptions. |
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