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Economic metrics are a sham, they’re an illusion to convince you your life is good even when it isn’t. Since when has the DOW being up ever directly improved your life? It hasn’t. Living becomes more expensive while the rich profit and tell us it’s okay
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Anonymous 4w

I agree with your position that those metrics do not reflect the life of the average person, however, there is still a reason we use them. They’re not a sham. They measure the position of the wealthy, true. This is because we learned in the Great Depression that if it gets bad for even the richest people, it gets even worse for everyone else and is way harder to recover from.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

I’m a socialist, so I’m not making value statements here. But to be a good socialist, one must understand capitalism. Under capitalism, the capitalist/ownership/rich class is the anchor class of the entire economy. When that anchor gets ripped out of the ground, the whole thing drifts away. That’s why the government bailed out the banks in 2009. It would’ve been even worse for everyone than it already was if they didn’t.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

Perhaps a system built around the success of those with more excess than humanity is a bad idea, not to sound too revolutionary (don’t come after me FBI)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

Yeah, I agree that the capitalist system is wiggity wack and should be replaced. But the metrics aren’t a “sham” they just exist to measure capitalism’s success. Which they do accurately. Sucks that the success of capitalism as a whole doesn’t translate to the success of the average person living under it. There’s a really long book about this, like three volumes of shit about this.

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