Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm.
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks I’m nearly 40 and I’ve been told for the last 20 years that we are in a cost of living crisis. As you have eluded to, when do we start to review the very economic system that perpetuates this ongoing crisis?
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks the poor are the shock absorber for the rich. They want more poor people, to absorb more shocks.
I used to think there was a political solution, but there really isn't. Guillotines or GTFO
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@phocks the poor are the shock absorber for the rich. They want more poor people, to absorb more shocks.
I used to think there was a political solution, but there really isn't. Guillotines or GTFO
@sortius @phocks guillotines won't help. We need an anarchist revolution. https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too Let me be clear, I want a real anarchist revolution, not the media stereotype caricature, I want a world where people collaboratively collectively govern themselves without unnecessary hierarchy, a world with compassion, mutual aid, and voluntary socialism instead of capitalist greed and poverty and divisions between people (borders/nation states).
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@sortius @phocks guillotines won't help. We need an anarchist revolution. https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too Let me be clear, I want a real anarchist revolution, not the media stereotype caricature, I want a world where people collaboratively collectively govern themselves without unnecessary hierarchy, a world with compassion, mutual aid, and voluntary socialism instead of capitalist greed and poverty and divisions between people (borders/nation states).
@ailurocrat @phocks hard pass
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
Financial inequality is the ticking time bomb that those with extreme wealth who therefore pull the strings of power want to maintain without it blowing up.
Genuinely believe instead of being individually angry (which the elite dismiss as either being hysterical or criminal) we need to collectively calmly state that change is happening. We declare we’ll only vote for a party that will introduce a wealth tax. That means for most voting #GreenParty.
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Financial inequality is the ticking time bomb that those with extreme wealth who therefore pull the strings of power want to maintain without it blowing up.
Genuinely believe instead of being individually angry (which the elite dismiss as either being hysterical or criminal) we need to collectively calmly state that change is happening. We declare we’ll only vote for a party that will introduce a wealth tax. That means for most voting #GreenParty.
Current Green Party policy:
‘A Wealth Tax of 1% annually on assets above £10 million and of 2% on assets above £1bn. Only a tiny minority of people would pay this tax.
Reform of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) to align the rates paid by taxpayers on income and taxable gains. This would affect less than 2% of all income taxpayers.
Aligning the tax rates on investment income with the tax and National Insurance Contribution rates’
https://greenparty.org.uk/about/our-manifesto/creating-a-fairer-greener-economy/
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Financial inequality is the ticking time bomb that those with extreme wealth who therefore pull the strings of power want to maintain without it blowing up.
Genuinely believe instead of being individually angry (which the elite dismiss as either being hysterical or criminal) we need to collectively calmly state that change is happening. We declare we’ll only vote for a party that will introduce a wealth tax. That means for most voting #GreenParty.
@JugglingWithEggs @phocks
We have been conditioned to think that the current process of extraction and rent seeking is normal. We need to define a new normal, where the economy is designed to benefit all of society instead of the super rich.
Our media landscape lacks imagination however, unwilling to lift the veil. The vast majority of people just accept that they are in a rat race, and are looking for their chunk of cheese. -
@phocks the poor are the shock absorber for the rich. They want more poor people, to absorb more shocks.
I used to think there was a political solution, but there really isn't. Guillotines or GTFO
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks they gain off our pain.
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks Just housing alone is nuts. It's a big deal that minimum wage in some areas was raised but the cost of renting goes up more every year, erasing any benefit and then some. Buy a house? Are you nuts? Those prices have gone up even faster. In 1993 a one-bedroom apartment in Boston could be bought for $60k or less. Today that one-bedroom apartment is $600k or more. Every year working people fall farther behind. My entire fucking life has been "weathering it."
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks The real pain point is that these prices make the current "middle class" the poor so they can handle it longer, but the actual poor are now unsaveable. Prices will never really go back down from here on out because people are still, by and large, buying.
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is"
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
Right, we have had a "temporary" cost of living crisis my whole life.
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
Cost of living crisis, kind of like calling an ice age a crisis..
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks 你说的对
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks "The ratchet only turns one way."
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Every time the media talks about a "cost of living crisis," they frame it like a passing storm. We are told to just weather it.
But when the cost of basic survival skyrockets and wages stagnate, we are looking at a permanent, systemic downward shift in class. Wealth is actively being extracted upward into assets the rest of us do not own. People are being quietly squeezed into poverty while working full time. The baseline of a secure life is being dismantled, and our diminished quality of life is exactly how the top tier is securing their gains.
@phocks I have come to believe that every blue collar job is being downgraded into a "secondary earner" wage.
"Hope you are married to someone who makes real money so you can afford kids and a house, because we aren't even paying you enough to live on your own in an apartment."
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@phocks I’m nearly 40 and I’ve been told for the last 20 years that we are in a cost of living crisis. As you have eluded to, when do we start to review the very economic system that perpetuates this ongoing crisis?
@dadpool We’re led to believe that the trickle-down effect works. Apparently, it does work—but only for the people who promote it: the rich.
