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This is the better future?
This is the better future?
I got a decent raise. Multiple required insurances I have immediately inflated.
looks at graph
Real wages are still below inflation. Nominal wage growth is what is above inflation.
Which means people are getting more money but it is worth less.
This means economic growth is down, and therefore the overall economy is demonstrably not in good shape.
*Edit To add from the article:
Nominal wage growth is the year-over-year growth in wages, not adjusted for inflation.
So… this doesn’t mean a whole lot then.
All three have one thing in common: named as potential replacements.
Media moves quick to burn.
I wonder if there’s a varangian connection with Norway’s use of Hellas?
Tobacco water pipe!
A broad coalition of the liberals, centrists, conservatives with the Nazis who were willing to outlaw and arrest a fifth of the government for the final vote to function.
They wanted it banned. And they got it banned. They saw a chance to win, took it, and won. Simple as.
Trick question: assume everyone is a child until proven otherwise.
I mean this strategy is how we got Trump in the first place. Zero lessons learned.
Shit, the Freikorps immediately turned around after murdering the Spartacus League and overthrew the SPD government who sent them out. The Kapp Putsch. And the SPD compromised with them.
Don’t forget helping manufacture the Clean Wehrmacht mythology. Sanitized fucking Heinz Guderian.
Just a casual grasp of historical events and a critical phase of post-war and interwar politics and economies of Europe.
There’s a lesson there!
My vote really doesn’t matter in my state for president (way too partisan) and it doesn’t change that Biden is likely going to lose the electoral college. So, uh, sure. Costs me nothing, maybe gets someone to support reason with a replacement. Easy deal.
They didn’t forget: they explictly and knowingly realized they could abuse the checks and balances and there would be no consequences. And they have so far been right.
J.B. Pritzker. The Governor of Illinois. Not sure what you’re following.
Pritzker. Easy. And?
Pretty much any blue state governor would’ve been a strong option about a year ago is Biden had endorsed them during the presidential primary.
I love how mouseover text doesn’t quite display correctly on my mobile browser, especially with that one.
So we’re talking big picture across history and the entire species, and not within the scope of meaningful political power of the eminent global hegemon.
But the question is about a better future. Going back in time for context ignores that. There have definitely been pathways to better futures that were missed, but that appears to be disagreeable.