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>The US government is motivated to have their citizens content and productive.

meanwhile, we're

- pretending that inflation has landed and is not being resisted by the Feds

- deregulating all the anti-trust accomplishments we made over the years to drive up prices

- pantomiming at best the idea of affordable housing as housing prices surge

- increasing homelessness and unemployment nationwide Something the modern job market does not help with as more job postings than not are fake to hire non-americans (or no one at all).

- deporting immigrants while Trump likely grants even more H1B-s to billionares,

- starting multiple trade wars because Trump is showing the definition of insanity by imposing tariffs again. When last time we lost thousands of jobs and billions of dollars over it.

But yes, banning the chinese app that actually gave some income to young american citizens suffering the worst from the above was done in a snap, relatively speaking. I'm ambivalent on the actual ban, but I can't blame american tiktok users being absolutely fervent with the bald-face hypocrisy going on.




Tiktok influencer income was never going to solve any economic problems in a meaningful way.


No, but it went in the right direction. Unlike everything else with the economy as of late (if you don't have the spare money to gamble in stocks.


Wage growth has exceeded inflation in the USA for the whole of 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...

Real wages in all income brackets are at an all-time high (apart from a short blip during the pandemic), and overall have surged since the start of the pandemic. See e.g. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/employed-full-tim....


Real wages but not buying power. And that ignores all the unemployment rate rising (U-3 and U-6). If you had a job and kept it in 2024, you're only slightly better off than 2023 and probably slightly worse than 2022.

If you don't been devastating. Now watch it go down in 2025 and unemployment get worse for Americans as well.




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