The pundits are at it again, fretting over the latest poll numbers showing that President Biden is losing in the key swing states, especially those like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with heavy concentrations of working-class voters. With inflation down, unemployment at record lows, wages up, and infrastructure projects popping up across the country, the pundits wonder why aren’t these workers thrilled with the economy?
Ifyou haven't realized the Republican/Democrat division is a scam meant to waste your precious time and prohibit you from seeing other Americans as your allies so we can finally take this country back from Wall Street, please put some smelling salts under your nose. Dunk your head in ice water. WAKE. UP.
Ain't none of those politicians gonna help you. Their job is to hold a Big Red Bow iin front of your face while they rob you blind. It doesn't have to be like this. It isn't like this for billions of people around the world!
We have the power, together. So, talk to your neighbor. Smile at people. Rediscover what we have in common and ignore the bastards who try to divide us and keep us arguing.
Says my 95 year old mom about the pol and econ assertions of the elite: "They think we're all stupid."
Exactly. Few among us mere workers have Ivy League degrees. Many of us fear math and are unsure of our ability to decipher the arcane chants of the econ priesthood who dictate econ commandments and urge obedience to some grand 'invisible hand.'
But we can see all the evidence to the contrary with our own eyes. How has purchasing power fared over the last decade or two? That's without questioning the dubious COLA calculations by our pol (and econ) overlords which don't include the full costs of food and energy.
So now we have the real numbers!!! No matter how hard the elite and their allies in the media try to gaslight us, try to convince us we just don't understand, we do. Our income actually IS decreasing; few elected officials acknowledge this as fact, let alone try to do anything to help us.
Is this "average" sensu strictu, calculated by adding up every datum, then dividing by the number of data? Which can be skewed to look good since a few very high numbers (here, income) can obscure the low numbers of the many. Like if 9 people earn $1K but one earns $10K, the average income would be $1,900. Or is it "average" sensu latu, used in everyday speech as a synonym for median? Median being the point on a curve where half are above, half are below, and the majority pretty close to that median. But if the figures here actually are statistical averages, then what is the real median? Or since the data used were well defined, would there not be much of a difference between average and median?
It's average but the top earners are not in the non-supervisory and production worker data. Hard to say if it's pulled up by craft workers, teachers, nurses, etc, or pulled down by the very low wage service workers. I think it's a pretty sound number for telling us what's happening to the working class.
This is an argument for revolution.
Dearest Substack readers and workers,
Ifyou haven't realized the Republican/Democrat division is a scam meant to waste your precious time and prohibit you from seeing other Americans as your allies so we can finally take this country back from Wall Street, please put some smelling salts under your nose. Dunk your head in ice water. WAKE. UP.
Ain't none of those politicians gonna help you. Their job is to hold a Big Red Bow iin front of your face while they rob you blind. It doesn't have to be like this. It isn't like this for billions of people around the world!
We have the power, together. So, talk to your neighbor. Smile at people. Rediscover what we have in common and ignore the bastards who try to divide us and keep us arguing.
Says my 95 year old mom about the pol and econ assertions of the elite: "They think we're all stupid."
Exactly. Few among us mere workers have Ivy League degrees. Many of us fear math and are unsure of our ability to decipher the arcane chants of the econ priesthood who dictate econ commandments and urge obedience to some grand 'invisible hand.'
But we can see all the evidence to the contrary with our own eyes. How has purchasing power fared over the last decade or two? That's without questioning the dubious COLA calculations by our pol (and econ) overlords which don't include the full costs of food and energy.
So now we have the real numbers!!! No matter how hard the elite and their allies in the media try to gaslight us, try to convince us we just don't understand, we do. Our income actually IS decreasing; few elected officials acknowledge this as fact, let alone try to do anything to help us.
I vote for woodchippers, and to feed all of these bastards in feet first.
Question:
Is this "average" sensu strictu, calculated by adding up every datum, then dividing by the number of data? Which can be skewed to look good since a few very high numbers (here, income) can obscure the low numbers of the many. Like if 9 people earn $1K but one earns $10K, the average income would be $1,900. Or is it "average" sensu latu, used in everyday speech as a synonym for median? Median being the point on a curve where half are above, half are below, and the majority pretty close to that median. But if the figures here actually are statistical averages, then what is the real median? Or since the data used were well defined, would there not be much of a difference between average and median?
It's average but the top earners are not in the non-supervisory and production worker data. Hard to say if it's pulled up by craft workers, teachers, nurses, etc, or pulled down by the very low wage service workers. I think it's a pretty sound number for telling us what's happening to the working class.