• Valmond@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Lots of stuff bad in the USA but the economy isn’t one.

      Edit: lol angry anti USA people.

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              3 days ago

              I’m talking about the economy, which is booming, not about inequality which is down the drain.

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                You’re talking about the part of the economy that establishment media and politicians focus on.

                That part overwhelmingly measures how things are for the very rich while ignoring key metrics that better reflect how the ENTIRE economy is doing.

                I’m talking about the ENTIRE economy, which in fact has gotten steadily worse ever since the early 70s with the only major anomalies being for the WORSE.

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                  Yeah, true. I talk about what 99% of people know as the economy, bnp and all that crap.

                  If you want to talk about something else, please do, but you shouldn’t use “economy” for that IMO, and trying to change what virtually everyone thinks “economy” stands for is just muddying the waters.

                  If you had said, they are unhappier, there is more poverty etc. I would have said, yes you are perfectly right.

                  But that wasn’t what was discussed.

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                    I talk about what 99% of people know as the economy, bnp and all that crap.

                    Well 99% of people have been gaslighted into believing a distortion so severe that it’s essentially a lie.

                    If you want to talk about something else, please do, but you shouldn’t use “economy” for that IMO, and trying to change what virtually everyone thinks “economy” stands for is just muddying the waters.

                    I couldn’t disagree more! To do what you’re asking of me would amount to accepting the lie and reinforcing it. The majority going along with a false narrative makes it MORE important to be clear about what’s ACTUALLY going on despite the establishment narrative, not less!

                    that wasn’t what was discussed.

                    Wrong again. An economy is “The [entire] system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.”, not just the parts that the establishment has tricked the larger population into focusing on in order to present a false impression that what’s good for their owner donors is good for the country.