Everytime one hears a politician or media commentator harping about “the Economy growing” one should instantly ask “for whom?”.
In fact, asking yourself “who is that really good for?” and “what’s the point of telling me this?” is a pretty good general mental self-defense mechanism for handling the modern style of discourse from people trying to convince you to do something or form an opinion about them, using success stories - pretty much all such stories are self-serving in some way and generally either exagerated or lying by omission.
Everytime one hears a politician or media commentator harping about “the Economy growing” one should instantly ask “for whom?”.
In fact, asking yourself “who is that really good for?” and “what’s the point of telling me this?” is a pretty good general mental self-defense mechanism for handling the modern style of discourse from people trying to convince you to do something or form an opinion about them, using success stories - pretty much all such stories are self-serving in some way and generally either exagerated or lying by omission.