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Free trade, open borders, taco trucks on every corner. Latest discussion thread: April 2024 **We in m/Neoliberal support:** - Free trade and competitive markets
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- The neoliberal mind
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Huh?
I looked at the apartment I lived in 12 years ago and the rent has doubled. Where have wages doubled in that time? Our second apartment has not quite doubled, but increased around 70%. Rent prices all over the country are madness.
Oh, he's only going back to 2020...
The graph in his "much wealthier" link also doesn't scream "much wealthier" to me--it looks more like "finally recovering from 2008". But if we're pretending 2020 was the start, sure, it's amazing.
So maybe the takeaway from this is "the economy isn't bad if you use a tight enough time window."
This is why all statistics and survey results need to be read carefully. Statistics can say damn near anything with creative use of language and scope.
Sometimes even on accident! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox Once I learned about this I started being a lot more skeptical of analyses in general.