Lmfao

“Economists assume that if a family falls into debt or bankruptcy, they can simply save their way back to the average.”

lmao I need to stop, I can’t— who is this even written for?!

Bro is reinventing the wheel and thinking he’s the first one to do it.
“As income rises from $40,000 to $100,000, benefits disappear faster than wages increase.

I call this The Valley of Death.”

Baby, that’s called The Benefits Cliff, we already know about this over in the real world

Not to mention you learn this BY BEING ALIVE AND NOT RICH AHSHAKAJSJAKAJDVSJAKAKAKLKKKKKKKKKK

Legitimately, this is the go-to example in introductory courses to illustrate how the data we use to shape policy is politically determined and largely useless in a practical sense I must have heard this in 10 different classes while getting a BA in women’s studies and then an MSW 😭

That original source is absolutely sending me. An economist who’d never considered whether the poverty line is a legitimate measure?!?! ☠️ This stuff is policy 101 we live in a fucking morontocracy

The next stage after being that high is you realize how paranoid you’re being and laugh, thereby making everything is funny again. Also pie tastes really good

Solidarity!

Only if you know what I like, Dick

This doesn’t work for literally anyone, they’re just delulu

I’d love to help you get on Adderall, but that’s a different service

Yeah that would be a huge PITA. There’s gotta be SOMETHING closer

Ah ok got it

Psychotherapy is a relational process that requires the client’s full participation, I’m not sure what’s controversial about that

I know we’re past capitalism now because why would you make it this hard for people to work if your primary goal was extracting labor value. We’re in the death cult stage for sure

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