Despite economic growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse - WTOP News
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According to a new Gallup poll released this week, most Americans are feeling negative about where things are heading with the economy and inflation.
  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
    128·
    2 个月前

    If 99 homeless people and Elon Musk are in a room, the average net worth of every person in the room is 2 billion dollars. Why aren’t all 100 happy about that?

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    68·
    2 个月前

    That’s because it is… the economy may be growing on paper but the portion of it most people have access to is constantly shrinking.

    • scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 个月前

      My company said our benefit change at the start of the year and our yearly living increases would surprise us. I was happy when I saw my pay go up by more than 200. I later found out they weren’t deducting my benefits and my overall pay went down compared to last year. I guess I miss understood surprise.

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
    53·
    2 个月前

    Yeah, people should be grateful everything is expensive as fuck and the planet is burning while the c-suites get more money than ever. A real accomplishment this good economy.

    How does this “economic growth” benefit me? That’s right, it does not.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 个月前

    That’s because the recovery is very uneven. Not everyone is better off than they were pre-pandemic, but everyone is paying the higher prices.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 个月前

    Despite rich people’s money growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse

    Fixed the title for you

  • CarbonAlpine@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 个月前

    All I think of when I read titles like this is that older meme that said switch “economy” with billionaires yacht money.

    Despite billionaires yacht money growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 个月前

      Almost all of our primary economic indicators have been juiced to hell and back so that “the economy” looks great on paper. In reality wages suck, inflation sucks, health care, energy and rent costs suck and the bottom 90% are growing ever poorer. But hey, our economic indicators look great so open some more champagne!

    • hissing meerkat@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 个月前

      10s of thousands of nothing. Hundreds of thousands isn’t even enough that “economic growth” at the expense of increased costs and greater inequity would be a net benefit.

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    3·
    2 个月前
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