Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?

• tburkhol@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For small businesses, a president taking power can immediately affect business. Small business owners make decisions based on their expectations of future, colored by their emotional state, so if they believe that a Republican President will be good for business, then they’re more likely to order new machinery, hire an extra person, etc. In an ecosystem of small businesses, that optimism feeds on itself.

  Happens in big business, too. S&P500 gained 3+% the day after election, which (if you don’t believe the daily stock market is just gambling) presumably means that ‘the market’ expects 3% more growth out of all those companies, just by Trump’s win being formalized. Stock price up makes it easier for companies to raise capital to expand, buy out competitors, etc

  Neither of those things is “the economy,” but they can feel like it, if you’re close enough.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    S&P500 gained 3+% the day after election

    and considering that index gained 90% over the course of last 5 years, that is a strong indication of… something. or maybe nothing. 😆

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Republican policies usually are better for people living in rural areas

  I’m surprised you read past this complete fallacy. I stopped there.

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I started working this job after Obama had already been in office one term, so I was mainly comparing the final 4 years. I’m really glad I was still in college for the first term when the economy was really rough.

  Covid did have an undeniable effect on the economy at the start of Biden’s term, and I don’t consider that his fault or anything. It does feel like we generally haven’t really recovered from it though, gas prices finally came back down but everything else is crazy expensive still. For example, I do electrical work, and a 250’ roll of 12/2 wire went from $35 in 2019 to $140 today.

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• obbeel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s funny you call people dense when in fact they see the difference with their own eyes. Like a small business owner is making less money and people try to convince him that it has nothing to do with the elected government. I don’t think Fubar is the dense one here at all.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    macro economy does not work like that. any complex system has inertia like an ocean-liner. you turn a wheel and it turns after 10 miles.

    seeing something is nice, but analysis of what you see is not necessarily withing the reach of “common sense”, which is why we have scientist who study the problem for all their life and professionals in their field.

    and that is why people trying to manipulate masses are trying to convince dense people not to trust the science and trust their common sense. because such gullible people can then be convince about anything they decide to.

    also fubar’s story reads like a really bad republican fan-fiction. “explosive growth” under trump and doom and despair under democratic president. come on, no administration has that big effect on your daily life. there are countries where it takes time to establish government after the elections and guess what, the day to day life still goes on even with no government present.

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