So it continues.

  • coffeetest@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for your observations and I won’t argue them. The problem with a word like recession is that we’re in what I see as, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. The middle class, what’s left of it, is mainly moving toward being poor. That said, the “smart” economy people will say “we are not in a recession and in fact the economy is good.” And it is good, very good in fact - for the privileged. Wealth inequality is the issue, at least in my view.

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. This person is noticing a local recession and believes the entire world is like their small town. It isn’t.

      Recessions have causes and “housing expensive” is not a cause. In a recession everyone loses, not just “some factory workers” or “people who rent”. This person is describing the effects of situational unemployment, which can hurt small towns reliant on only one industry.