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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9129814" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Been over this topic with several people around here at least a dozen times. We could trade statistics and dramatic explanations all day, you’re not gonna convince me that blue is red because you won’t look past your own pessimism. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging&nbsp; &nbsp; :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />ETA: since you’re interjecting into a comparison of this year vs 2013 (ten years ago), look up the numbers on state violence globally for 2013. 13 and 14 were extremely bad years, and the numbers have dropped quite a lot since then. The US child poverty rate is still lower, by the way, than it was in 2013. Healthcare coverage is still vastly better, and health outcomes are still better. The story is even more positive in much it the developing world, where many places have gained dramatically in terms of access to health and education resources in the last decade. So no, I didn’t sleep through the pandemic of “shipocolypse”, or “greedflation (thanks for reminding me how much I despise these sensationalist nicknames for terrible things). I worked full time for a company that gave us next to nothing as thanks for making them record profits. Price gouging and an otherwise manageable family emergency has turned a lifestyle I could comfortably afford into an amount of unsecured debt that I will have to seek debt relief to get out from under. I’m living the crap you think I slept through. I’m just not blinded by what’s going on in my life, and am willing to look at the bigger picture.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 9129814, member: 6704184"] Been over this topic with several people around here at least a dozen times. We could trade statistics and dramatic explanations all day, you’re not gonna convince me that blue is red because you won’t look past your own pessimism. 🤷‍♂️ ETA: since you’re interjecting into a comparison of this year vs 2013 (ten years ago), look up the numbers on state violence globally for 2013. 13 and 14 were extremely bad years, and the numbers have dropped quite a lot since then. The US child poverty rate is still lower, by the way, than it was in 2013. Healthcare coverage is still vastly better, and health outcomes are still better. The story is even more positive in much it the developing world, where many places have gained dramatically in terms of access to health and education resources in the last decade. So no, I didn’t sleep through the pandemic of “shipocolypse”, or “greedflation (thanks for reminding me how much I despise these sensationalist nicknames for terrible things). I worked full time for a company that gave us next to nothing as thanks for making them record profits. Price gouging and an otherwise manageable family emergency has turned a lifestyle I could comfortably afford into an amount of unsecured debt that I will have to seek debt relief to get out from under. I’m living the crap you think I slept through. I’m just not blinded by what’s going on in my life, and am willing to look at the bigger picture. [/QUOTE]

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