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40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn’t add up: ‘I’m making the most money I’ve ever made, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck’

“There's this wild disconnect between what people are experiencing and what economists are experiencing,” says Nikki Cimino, a recruiter in Denver.

1y ago

1y ago

40-year-old homeowner says economy doesn’t add up: ‘I’m making the most money I’ve ever made, and I’m still living paycheck to paycheck’

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It's as if workers can only improve their condition in a capitalist society when the pie grows exponentially, but continual exponential growth is an impossibility in a physical world.
- It doesn't need to grow exponentially, just faster than the population.
- Do you even know what exponential growth means? Because if you feel qualified to criticize capitalism you should know.