- "Just remove anonymity/usernames from all platforms. Users have to use their legal name. Let's get some real accountability behind people's actions and what they are spreading." 
However, even some normie ledditors start to 
about why living expenses are getting more and more expensive, yet the ruling class and media only talks about "internet extremism" as the issue that plebians should be focused about! 
I'm gonna bash my fricking head against the...
IT'S BECAUSE WE'VE TRIED ASKING NICELY TO AFFORD BASIC SHIT AND KEEP GETTING * * FRICKING IGNORED!!!** By our political "leaders", by our employers, landlords, law enforcement (see; elite class public security detail, lower class suppression unit) we're fricking sick of fighting to meet even the bare minimum!!!
And now it's "Ooooohhhh.... I bet all these attacks are because of that EEEEVVVVIIIIILLL INTERNET! It's gotta be that 'political divisiveness. That's the proble-"
GET FRICKED, NBC! It's the thing that your fricking owners won't let you fricking talk about, and I am beyond sick of the actual fricking problem getting so carefully danced around.
We're. Tired. Of. The. Owner. Class's. Bull. Shit.
I never thought I would be agreeing with a redditor typing an neurodivergent mental breakdown 
Its getting bad in the last couple of months we have had 2 assignation attempts on Trump a third non-attempt where a guy tried to sneak into his press conferences with a gun, we have had two shootings at Christian schools, an attack in new Orleans that killed a bunch of people and finally a guy tried to blowup a cybertruck in front of trump tower. these attacks are all over the place but the one connecting thread is it is all far right violence.
Just remove anonymity/usernames from all platforms. Users have to use their legal name. Let's get some real accountability behind people's actions and what they are spreading.
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An interesting question -- but not the one originally raised about wages keeping up with inflation.
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You moved the goal posts, neighbor.
I believe my original quote was that wages have "stagnated", and I don't see how you can say that a 9% real wage growth over 50 years isn't stagnant.
Especially when housing costs (the largest expense for Americans) have increased so much relative to the CPI:
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You know it's trivially easy to show who's moving goalposts, right?
This is what I originally replied to. It's not your comment, but it's the one that set the goalposts:
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"Not keeping up with inflation" is false over almost any 5+ year period and has definitely not been the case on average over the past 40-50 years.
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Change "not" to "barely" and it's correct.
You should keep yourself safe btw.
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Even if you doctor your claim that way, you're still wrong.
That's because, dumbass, an 8-9% gain in real wages since the 70s is one of the largest gains in wealth that the world has ever seen. It's more absolute wealth gain than happened ever over all years prior to 1700. !neolibs
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Keep pinging your support group, cute twink.
And don't forget to lick those boots.
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Oh look, another chart showing real wages have long-term gains.
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Keep simping for billionaires, I'm sure those gains will trickle down eventually.
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LOL, my entire point is that they already have and continue to, even to people like you.
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Lol, they have remarkably accurate stats on the 200 AD economy
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Is that a dig? We know a lot about how people lived just after the peak of the Roman Empire. We don't even need to piece it together forensically because there are lots of records.
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Most of the world wasn't Rome. I just think it's funny that they're rounding down to zero for 1400 years.
I'm deeply suspicious of any graphs that look this smooth.
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Rome was the rich part, though. Wealth really does round down to nearly zero for most of history compared to modern life. Subsistence farming has been the rule of human existence, not the exception.
I'll ask a different way, though: how would you characterize an 8-9% increase in wealth from the 70s versus historical gains? The commies here are claiming that such an increase represents "barely keeping up," but none of you pinkos has offered any alternative historical baseline, just skepticism of the one I shared (and not even detailed skepticism about methods, just "I don't believe it").
The only thing the commies have really offered here is envy economics: resentment that productivity gains aren't more redistributed. The problem with this argument, as !neolibs would put it, is that an economy that's as productive as today's but much more equal doesn't have evidence of being possible. There are rich societies with billionaires, and there are poor societies with none.
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Muh stagnant wages since 1970s and corporate greed.
Housing has ballooned because of regulations, zoning and lack of new building. Also you can't compare the material costs of a house built in the 1950s with one today. People talking about le stagnant wages act as if up to the 1970s Americans had a better lifestyle which isn't true, they didn't consoooom as much as they do now.
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Director of Diversity and InclusionExecutive nuclearshill 1mo ago #7587423 spent 0 currency on pingsAll westerners should be forced to spend at least a month in a 3rd world shithole to fully understand just how they have it with current tech.
B-words clearly don't understand how much time you save by having a washing machine and a dryer. Or a microwave. Or yes, the internet. If I had to pay business taxes and licensing fees in person, I'd be spending entire days doing nothing but waiting outside a government office.
At the other end of the spectrum, the ancaps should also get to enjoy a month of no government regulations. I think I can count on one hand the amount of wheelchair accessible buildings in my native country.
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I think I'd say they did have a better lifestyle precisely because they didn't consoooom as much. The basics were more affordable and lots of bullshit gadgets didn't exist so they didn't miss them.
Trying not to Tedpost
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
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