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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People are more convinced that inflation will keep falling, and their outlook on their personal finances has also improved.

The rate of inflation fell ever so slightly, my 'outlook' on personal finances is still "work my body and joints to dust until 5 years before biological death" but hey, I can maybe retire to a lavish life of discount bulk pet food and a cardboard box apartment paid for with 70% of my Social Security income like 2 days earlier than previous, now. Pop the fucking corks!

The job market remains strong

Strong for who? Strong for fucking who? Try getting literally any god damn job as a blue collar these days. Nightmare mode if you have psychological issues. Just fucking try and you will see how swell it is. That one blissful year or so of companies hiring any warm body off the street during and immediately after the COVID19 outbreak is over, the 'getting a job' process has been back to business as usual for over two years now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Plus massive layoffs in tech sector, UPS, etc etc. yeah the 'job market' is great, if you consider people on min wage with 2 hours a week pay actually 'employed'

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was just reading that story before I typed that, like yeah 50k more workers getting thrown like dirt to the wind, and that's just the planned layoffs reported thus far, because a gagglefuck of capitalist shitheads on Wall Street and their oracles are throwing tantrums about interest rates or whatever and the quarterly projections may not support the usual infinite growth on the workers' backs this year. In other words, it's been about 5-8 years so the working class is due for another squeeze in the ol' vice as per usual with capitalism.

I've been seeing what must be the effects of this crap in the job listings for my area. It's the most discouraging I've seen since like 2009. College degree or not, there's little to choose from and the competition for the scraps is undoubtedly high once again. What's also fun is I really don't want the job I have now but if I quit I am completely fucked and would be getting a much lower wage even if I did find something else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Being unable to quit is the capitalists dream employee.

Next to 'undocumented' workers that is..

Oh yeah, barring actual slavery like our Wonderful private prisons 'employ'