balderdash@lemmy.zip to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoThe rent is too damn highlemmy.zipimagemessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1925arrow-down125
arrow-up1900arrow-down1imageThe rent is too damn highlemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·1 year agoI recently had an exhaustive back and forth with a status quo warrior that said actually the poorest workers in the United States were spoiled and rich actually because the GDP was so dazzlingly high compared to other countries. That was it. That was the entire basis of that smug asshole's argument. Rent and healthcare costs don't real. Rejoice, you ungrateful poors. ![galaxy-brain](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fa05d4fe-f163-40e0-a03d-912cd48096ad.png "emoji galaxy-brain")
minus-squareBurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoIsn't GDP a pretty bullshit metric in general? At least outside of the narrow thing its used to measure
minus-squareUlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year ago![nicholson-yes](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/43d4cab3-485e-47b0-a691-015c0068857f.png "emoji nicholson-yes")
minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoThere's always some chucklefuck that jumps in with "YoU'Re ThE gLoBaL 1%!"
I recently had an exhaustive back and forth with a status quo warrior that said actually the poorest workers in the United States were spoiled and rich actually because the GDP was so dazzlingly high compared to other countries.
That was it. That was the entire basis of that smug asshole's argument. Rent and healthcare costs don't real. Rejoice, you ungrateful poors. ![galaxy-brain](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/fa05d4fe-f163-40e0-a03d-912cd48096ad.png "emoji galaxy-brain")
Isn't GDP a pretty bullshit metric in general? At least outside of the narrow thing its used to measure
![nicholson-yes](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/43d4cab3-485e-47b0-a691-015c0068857f.png "emoji nicholson-yes")
There's always some chucklefuck that jumps in with "YoU'Re ThE gLoBaL 1%!"