• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I’ll believe the economics are better when I’m not paying markedly more for everything in my life and my salary increases.

    The politicians are so wildly out of touch with the citizens.

    This idea that the data is “mistrusted” or “unseen” is ridiculous to the point of incredulity. I don’t care what the data says, I know what my lived experiences are and everything is getting wildly more expensive except my labor, it seems. Show me any study you want, it won’t change that groceries are 30%+ more expensive, my rent keeps going up, restaurants and bars have gotten nearly 50% or more pricier and my wage hasn’t grown to match.

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      I’ll admit I’m a high income earner. I’ve never had to watch watch what I spend but recently even I’ve noticed increases in everything.

      Groceries have doubled from what I paid in 2019. I buy almost the same thing every week and I compared.

      Dining out has become much more expensive. Places I used to consider a good value are now expensive.

      I ordered a basic meal the other day at a local place. A cheeseburger. Fries. Drink and my friend had a salad. It was almost 59 dollars. Six months ago it was around 30 dollars.

      So now I have to watch my spending as everything has increased

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        Dining out is CRAZY now.

        My wife and I were out and about last weekend and needed to eat so we hit a Burger King.

        Meals for 2, nothing crazy, was $30… at freaking BURGER KING. We don’t even have a sales tax here.

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          Workers wanted an increase in pay, so shareholders needed to offset that by even more. Workers can’t get a raise without shareholders getting a raise.

          Inflation is majority driven by profit, not wages. Dems barely attack that angle. Republicans actively work against it.

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              Shareholders provide economic value (it’s literally in the name) and are not rent-seeking by definition

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                  Shareholders are key investors and are the principal drivers of M&A and infrastructure investment.

                  Disagreeing with the idea that companies exist to drive shareholder returns does not change the actual purpose of shareholders, nor suddenly cause them to be rent-seekers.

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                    You brought an economics argument to a rage thread. OP isn’t making a technical claim when they say “rent seeking behavior”, they’re angry and using it as a synonym for “greedy people”.