I’m struggling to find numbers because Google has been enshittified and will only show me local rental advertising, but, like, if I understand this the cost of food, since Biden took office, is up like 20%, and rent is up ~30%, medicine and childcare are still totally unaffordable, and everything else is much more expensive. Meanwhile wages are up like, idk, 20$ a week or something.

Cause, this all adds up to me as people are drastically poorer than they were four years ago, but the economics perverts on bsky insist people should kiss Biden’s shoes because wages are up 4.3% and “The ecnonomy is good.”

Can someone help with numbers I don’t know how to convince a liberal that people need to eat food or they’ll die.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    It is difficult for me to imagine what “democracy” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True democracy can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society democracy can exist for real and not on paper.