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I appreciate Will. But sometimes he needs to learn to just let things go

I had a guy on a survey today say he isn't affected by cost of living because he's retired and somehow this means that if prices go up so does his income, and people complaining about affordability are stupid. Because everyone has stock and numbers always go up, I assume.

It is driving me insane 😩

gee I sure hope the rubber doesn't meet the road

It’s all “good in the hood” they say, but that’s wrong, there are many socioeconomic problems in the hood.

/me makes list of warehouses. looks for gas can.

We're about to be hit with a one two punch of whatever the fuck the fallout of Iran continues to be combined with the two big AI companies failing to go public once they show their real books. Both will immediately collapse afterwards and take a good chunk of private equity with them. Summer fun!

The CPI excludes food and energy but people buy gas & groceries every week! “It’s true you’re paying more every week but it’s not REALLY inflation!”

Watching people tie themselves in knots to explain why the median economic unit should actually be in charge of this conversation is insane. Charts don't vote!

Dude just burned down a 2M sqft warehouse in Cali cause of his experience, so yeah, the terminally online-conomists might wanna touch grass once in a lifetime. The friction that these cycles of inflation have been causing at inland empire level of economy is wholly not appreciated by the charts.

When most people are polled on how they’re doing financially, most people say they’re doing well!

but the data!! numbers good!

My hypothesis: if one has a take they believe is backed up by data, and then they're yelled at online by almost everyone (each having anecdotal evidence that contradicts the data), that person will wrap themselves in the data, assume the pile on is manufactured, and end up radicalized In some way.

This reminds me of Poland pre-2016. Stats were good, but people didn't feel it like that.