12999th poster gets a cookie (cookie thread (Part 7)) (Part 8)

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#2804

This was taken when I was a baby

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#2805

Yeah the data used for ppp probably doesn’t take into account housing/insurance

#2806

a surprising amount of people don’t know how to swim

#2807

Can we define what knowing how to swim means
anyone can like
float in the water

#2808

that’s just false

#2809

if you drown in water it’s a skill issue

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#2810

You became emo (full black)

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#2811

all you have to do is flap your arms or whatever

#2812

I got paywalled on the stats site i just linked, but from what I could see from their insurance premium graph, you know what else has continued to increase sharply in the past few decades besides housing prices lmao

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#2813

people have slipped on beaches and drowned

#2814

on sand?

#2815

yes

#2816

or like somewhat in the water

#2817

yeah lol :skull:

#2818

Yep

#2819

Idk I just feel like the bar for swimming is literally not drowning which if you have any control of your arms or legs should be impossible

#2820

So yeah it can both be true that incomes have increased relative to the cost of everything except housing and insurance, but that doesn’t actually matter if housing and insurance premium costs are outstripping that growth. People are not going to have a positive perception of the economy when things are more expensive at the grocery store, and their savings accounts are being drained even if it’s not really the increased prices at the grocery store costing them.

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#2821

you know, wages have outplaced inflation but they sure haven’t outpaced the essentials market

is what im getting from this

#2822

i feel like you’re just making stuff up based on what you think is true and not what actually has any evidence

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#2823

I’m speaking from my personal experinced

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