Are we really winning in the "Golden Age"?

[IHaveRespawned]

Fuel prices here are hovering close to $4 a gallon here when regular unleaded gasoline was at $2.70/gal over a year ago. Shopping at the Food City grocery store, most items range between $4 to $5 each. For example, a frozen pizza from the freezer aisle ranges typically from $5-$7 now when I can go to Little Ceasars and get a "hot and ready" for that price.

Interest rates on homes have climbed to nearly 8%. Inflation is killing the average, everyday American Joe and Mary, and now inflation is outpacing wages. The Americam Dream is getting more and more out of reach. According to sources, the US Dollar has devalued over 80% since 1988.

Just when we thought prices and the cost of living is bad, now we are on edge with anxiety about our careers and livelihoods, whether our career will be automated by AI in both the short term and long term. Will we have to change careers entirely again? Will we need to return to some education program when we are already above our heads in student debt? What will be safe?

It feels like our efforts are never enough and, sometimes, in vain.

Yes

No

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A total of 11 votes were cast: 2 girls and 9 guys. See detailed results

[LazerBean]

Well poor people in Asian and africa are starving to death, living in huts, and have no AC or heating. Meanwhile virtually every "poor" person in the us has heating, AC, electricity, smartphones, eat out, and has more body fat than the average pig. You, for example. Complaining about your living conditions while your useless wife had no job lol

[IHaveRespawned]

I rather not compare my nation, the United States, to any other country. This is the USA, not Africa or Asia. We are our own unique nation with our own culture, principals, and ideals.

We are supposed to be better than this! Not only are we not maintaining a baseline, we have digressed! There is no doubt our living standards have decreased since pre-2020. This is not a good sign for the middle class, and we are being butchered.

[LazerBean]

Of course our livings standards have decreased, that's what happens when the quality of people in a country decreases. That's why people like you can get away with being jobless for so long and still be fat and have a wife lmao

[FrodoSkywalker007]

Sadly, that is life, and the struggle of many generations.

Things change, industries collapse and rise, markets fluctuate.

There are things right now that are far better than under Biden, and there are things that have stagnated or been made worse.

Those in power use this to undermine the strength of others just to do the same.

Seems the human condition

[IHaveRespawned]

I voted for the fucker Trump 3 times. I thought inflation under the Biden regime was bad. I am getting pummeled and driven into the ground now.

I am 32, married, and paying no mortgage and rent. As of now, I am pulling in over $3,200 a month, but that is hardly enough to feed all myself, my wife, and my pets. We have no children. We are drowning in bills and daily expenses. I have cut subscriptions and add-ons, and even THAT is still not enough.

The AI push has really fucked my career path up royally. Once a software engineer making $76k at my peak, I am now making close to $40k/yr with my debt to income ratio instantly rising from 25% to 48% just due to the massive income decrease.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

That's the story of many 🤷‍♂️
I know the feeling.
I never voted for him.

[Snakeyes7]

Maybe it's not realistic but Trump would have guaranteed the midterm victory if he went through with the idea he tossed around once of removing federal income taxes for anyone who makes under 100k. The high gas prices wouldn't feel like as much of a loss at that point.

[FreyaRed]

People in US, no, US elites, yes, they will win. War with Iran, conflict with China AI scam, are just operations to pump money from the bottom to the top. Limiting resources and making them expensive is a tool to make the pleb poorer and the 1% richer.

[Miristheiss]

Deporting illegals trumps that short term delema. Controlling mass migration will affect decades and centuries of USA culture. Prices always rise and fall.

[CarolineWhizz]

You've got it easy. Fuel prices here in the UK are about 9dollars a gallon thanks to that asshole Trump

[DryGermanGuy]

"We're gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning!!!"

- Donald Trump

[exitseven]

yes, America is on the right track. I feel optimistic about the future

[MrChinaski]

Most of us consume far more than we need to.

[msc545]

Of course we are not winning. Do you even need to ask?

[Abbycado]

Not even slightly.

[Abbycado]

Thanks for the wrong vote, by the way.

[slatyb]

Thank Trump for that.

[Staximus]

$4 dollars a gallon? It’s $6.39 here🤡

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

Yes..