It seems like myself and everyone around me put in a crazy amount of hours just to pay bills and groceries and that’s it. Just the essentials, but even that has been getting pricey. It’s not worth going out to eat or shop except on special occasions like a birthday. How has it been economically in your neck of the woods? Do you struggle to stay afloat or is everything sunshine and roses?

Non meme answers and effort posts only.

No, you stupid fucking zoomer, you're hallucinating, as always. Look at the S&P for god's sake, Trump's economy is going gangbusters like it always does. You lost. Now I need to cum inside another zoomette slut, thank you very much.

We're in deep recession but all statistics are manipulated to make it look like we're not.

>>60749839 (OP)
No I do not think so, I was a poorfag forever and even still and a crypto neet, I never work and I have money so I find it hard to believe people are struggling to MAKE money rn. It is more the expensive stuff like houses are retardedly overpriced.

>>60749839 (OP)
Top 10% has increased their spending.
Bottom 90% had decreased theirs.

There are two economies.

>>60749847

>>60749839 (OP)
You weren't old enough to really experience 2008 if you think we're in a recession. We're definitely at a crossroads tho where some drastic changes need to be made or things are gonna get real bad.

>>60749839 (OP)

>>60749878

>>60749839 (OP)

Yes we've been in a recession since at least mid 2023. But business leaders and politicians are still in the denial phase of the recession, hence why it hasn't been officially declared. My area is doing better than most places in the country, but that's only because my state's economy is tied to the hip to the American military industrial complex, and the Ukraine War has given all of the defense companies a steady stream of Federal dollars, which then trickles down to the rest of the local economy.

>>60749839 (OP)
it's bad but not bad enough yet. the frog is being slowly boiled and your post is the frog wondering if the water always was kind of hot or if it's just in your mind and then the cook looks at you and says: nah frog dude it's like totally ice cold just chill.

There are two economies.
It is called the K shapes economy.
Look it up.

>>60749839 (OP)
This same post could have been made here in
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
or today.
The answer is always yes.

>>60749858
Has been this way since 2009 but especially so in the last five years.

>>60749860
see—->>60749861

>>60749866
How so?

>>60749839 (OP)
A recession is defined as a contraction in the gdp for multiple quarters. It seems like that isnt happening per se. But stuff is definitely more expensive.

The exponential increase in cost lately is affecting purchasing power of your wages. Making everyone unhappy you work hard to barley scape by

>>60749847
Yeah gang busters kek