Who’s it getting better for? Wall Street? Prices on shit keeps fucking going up. My paycheck ain’t.

As others have already stated, the job market is fine, the stocks are fine, but the ability to afford living day to day is worse than I have ever remembered. Here in my cheaper state here are some random prices:

• A bag of Doritos is over $7.
• Beef shortage makes ground beef for a family of 4 $14
• Gas prices are over $3.70
• My grocery bill increased by nearly 50% overall and we are buying less on top of that
• Car prices are through the roof, making it impossible for people like me to change cars (I’m hearing they are going to drop again soon)
• Rent prices are soaring to the point where it isn’t sustainable
• Interest rate keeps rising

Groceries and gas is still inflated. Services are steadily raising rates and some people are still not being paid a living wage.

That's because (yes, others here beat me to it) -- the economy is not the stock market. People's costs of living and wages aren't getting better, they're getting worse, even as giant corps have record profits and that is reflected on the stock tickers. If the average person was heavily invested early on in some of these corporate behemoths and could actually share in the rapacious profits, maybe things would be different... but that's not the case.

Been to a grocery store lately? Looked at rent prices? How about clothing? Gas? Basic necessities?

People think the economy's getting worse because it IS for consumers. I don't really give a shit if a company is paying less for grain than they did a year ago if the prices they charge for the final product havn't gone down!

Until basic costs of living start decreasing, most people aren't going to see any positive change.

That's because no matter how well stock prices are doing, it still costs substantially more to buy groceries than it did last year, by way of example. The average American is screwed just as hard with a good economy as a bad one, and the poorer you are, the rawer the screwing.

Guys, we just have to wait for it to trickle down! Don't worry, any decade now and it will finally pay off...

Months of gaslighting that they were doing great didn't work out so well. Being told wages are up, inflation down, economy great while wondering how they are gonna pay rent contradicted the desired message.

Corporations and the 1% keep posting record profits.

The rest of us keep having to pay higher prices.

CNN: Why do many Americans think the economy is getting worse?? It's working as designed.

That's because it is getting worse. No one believes the bullshit that it's getting better. It's fake news.

That's because our useless news media has been beating the drum of recession for literally years now because fear mongering is all they know how to do.

The economy is fantastic for like the 10% of the country who owns 75% of the country's junk

The stock market isn't the economy. Wall Street has a vested interest in us believing the opposite, however, so of course CNN and others will keep acting like they're the same thing.

Yeah I mean, gains on Wall Street may be considered "stronger economic news" by some, but it tends to matter for relatively few.

A strong economy doesn't rely on news stories about Wall St. If I see my money going further, I take it as strong economic news. If I see my wages go up, I take it as strong economic news. If I ever see rents go down, or housing in general become more affordable, or literally anything that affects most common people in a positive way based on some financial change, I'll take it as strong economic news.

Wall St making more money? Not strong economic news. Just stories that highlight how the rich continue to get richer and how out of touch one small subset of the population is from the rest.

Or maybe... just maybe... this is backwards and the notable thing is that statistics have been cited in support of a claim that the economy is improving, despite the fact that at least half of Americans believe that it isn't.

Remove the income of the top 1% of Americans from the equation and you'll REALLY see how good the "economy" is.

just because the ball is bouncing doesn't mean it's getting any higher.

“Months of stronger economic news”. Oh you mean propaganda? The economy is getting worse. Price gouging and job losses are an easy way to gauge things.

People don’t need news to know how fucked up their shit is. All they have to do is experience it and then they’ll know themselves the truth. You won’t get this take from the news because they are gaslighting you.

Half of Americans are lying because reality doesn't suit their narrative.

Should we guess which half thinks that?