Wages went up for the bottom portion of the workforce a lot.
EPI normally bitches about "iNeQuaLiTy" and even they say the 10th percentile worker is up a lot since 2019, 9% rise after accounting for inflation.
The 20th through 40th percentiles is up 3.9% over inflation.
I don't want to scold them with "AXXSHUALLY YOU ARE BETTER OFF" because inflation genuinely sucks all the joy out of everything, even if your actual numbers are better., and people have a visceral fear of runaway inflation even if they've never experienced it.
I see the poors are pretending to be big wallet niggas again est. 2016
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This hole exists as a safe space for refugees from the Facebook(MetaTM groups of the same name. Of which there have been several iterations. We mostly exist to poke fun at the state of living in poverty. While it oftentimes is unavoidable, we do aspire to not be meanspirited. Over the years we have co-opted the term 'Peak Poor' to being someone who exudes poverty, regardless of their actual net worth. Trump and Elon both exhibit the peak poor ethos from time to time while still being the top 0.000001%. You can do something peak poor and still be a good person or a generally adjusted one. We all have a bit of poor in us.
We basically fill a niche similar to fatpeoplehate with a bit less actual malice.
PeakPoor is shotgunning mountain dews at 5 years old.
PeakPoor is not people dying of poverty. While technically the greatest heights of poverty is succumbing to it this is not funny, and is a failure
of capitalism. We do not make fun of poverty to be mean spirited such as that.
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Subscribe to this hole, it's important that we get our numbers up. Love numbers = peak poor
Bonus points for making your post title some variation of peak poor. (Pinnacle of Poverty, Prowess of the Penniless)
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I really do love you all so very much, i'm even spending drama coin to get some banners and marseys. thanks for being a part of the community.
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Why are neolib news orgs like the NYT and NPR trying to tell us the piss on our leg is rain?
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rough scene when even /r/politics isn't eating up the biden campaign press releases
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Because they're desperate and the smart people left the paper already
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Economy is really good though
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For who?
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It's unironically been pretty good for my own investment accounts tbh.
Still wish housing prices would come down tho, until that happens I won't declare it "good"
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won't happen
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but daddy biden i'll totes vote for u if u do
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Wages went up for the bottom portion of the workforce a lot.
EPI normally bitches about "iNeQuaLiTy" and even they say the 10th percentile worker is up a lot since 2019, 9% rise after accounting for inflation.
The 20th through 40th percentiles is up 3.9% over inflation.
I don't want to scold them with "AXXSHUALLY YOU ARE BETTER OFF" because inflation genuinely sucks all the joy out of everything, even if your actual numbers are better., and people have a visceral fear of runaway inflation even if they've never experienced it.
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You know the economy expands to more than just the money you get from your parents right?
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Because if “the experts” keep being wrong about everything they start to lose credibility
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