Nick Felker on Mythryl: “Yes life is confusing and often out of your control. But that has…”

Yes life is confusing and often out of your control. But that has always been true. Specific quantities like unemployment rate can change month to month. There are more curmudgeons than optimists today and that's probably a consequence of gerontocracy.

Judah Grunstein@judah-grunstein.bsky.social

I think this explains in the language of econ what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social has been arguing in the language of sociology, but which many people deny because it doesn't show up in the charts. People grasp how vulnerable they are to life's vagaries, even if the lexicon they use is affordability.

nytimes.comOpinion | The Affordability Crisis Isn’t About Affordability. It’s About Something Much Bigger. (Gift Article)Whatever you call it, we can all agree this doesn’t feel good.

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