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Even though it was literally the same thing! Good labor market MEANS expensive burrito taxi

During the Biden administration the stock market would regularly tank because too many jobs were added in a month. Now the stock market tanks because of Trump announcing new tariffs every other week

People are using the Biden era growth to justify the entire median wage history in the US, 1980-2025, as "this was always totes fine the left made this up as a problem"

narratives to explain what the numbers say themselves, but when there's a discrepancy that can only be explained by 'well, the Media was in cahoots with the fascists and whooped us on the truth' and generally is the excuse. That your forwardly can't fix until you wrest electoral control somehow.

It turns out that people like to take the family to Red Robin, don't like when it costs eight bucks more to take the family to Red Robin, and don't think at all about the people who work at Red Robin and might be doing a little better because of those extra eight bucks.

"We are all Friedmanites now." In all seriousness, exploiting the fact that people had narrowly different interests as consumers (where, given strong competition, the consumer's interest might be aligned with capital) than as workers was the absolute key to neoliberalism

Low income wage growth

there was discourse not too long ago about whether "treatler is a slur" and it was bleak

Yes, people will notice more and pay more attention to something that affects their (presumably) daily life negatively that something that is a general positive influence among a large nebulous group that may or may not contain them.

It turns out the most politically engaged low wage earners actually are temporarily embarrassed millionaires. They’re just waiting for their inheritance to kick in.

Yeah

Agree

How many years did people in the 80s go between appliance purchases? How many shirts per year? Did they have Temu?

Similarly, the absolute HOOPS a particular type of online progressive jumped through to justify their purchase of the Hogwarts computer games despite Rowling's hate-fuelled litigation sprees. "Not flying an imaginary broomstick" was a bridge too far for their performative allyship.