Ageroth
@Ageroth@reddthat.com
- Comment on Nearly 25% of U.S. workers are "functionally unemployed," economic analysis finds 2 weeks ago:
The economic research firm’s “True Rate of Unemployment” (TRU) seeks to capture the share of workers that the group defines as “functionally unemployed.” This includes not only people who are unemployed and looking for a job, but also those who are involuntarily working part-time and who are earning poverty-level wages, or less than $26,000 annually before taxes.
Other economists cautioned against putting too much weight on alternative measures of labor market health, including TRU.
“An unemployment rate that would be in the 20% range does not line up with anything we see in the U.S. economy,” EY-Parthenon chief economist Gregory Daco told CBS News.
Daco said several factors are weighing on job growth. “You see ongoing moderation of wage growth, which is reflective of employers controlling costs, and wanting to make sure they have the right talent and the right skills at the right price, and not spend excessively.”
Muted wage growth dampens consumer spending, which drives two-thirds of U.S. economic activity.
“One company’s wage bill is another person’s income, and in turn their capacity to spend,” Daco said. “When I look at potential signs of softness for the U.S. economy, income growth has been trending around zero, adjusted for inflation, and that limits consumer spending growth. It forces some households to make more difficult choices in terms of where they spend their money and how much they spend, and that slows the overall pace of the economy.”
Sorry for copying like half the article, there’s really not much to it. One research group saying if you count people forced to work part time or who are working full time but making below poverty wages as part of the unemployment % the number is >20%. In response they quote one guy saying “nuh-uh” with nothing to back it up, who then goes on to say jobs aren’t growing because wages have stagnated and that when people don’t have money to spend the economy slows down.
But there’s no way the slowing economy has anything to do with ~15% of the working age population being forced into poverty, no sir that doesn’t “line up with anything we see in the US economy” . - Comment on Urine Luck 1 month ago:
I ain’t paying 50$ for a garbanzo bean on my chest
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 1 month ago:
The resources required to enforce such rules are controlled by the people who benefit from that not being the rules. Hell, the IRS has essentially said they don’t have the resources to go after the biggest tax evaders because it costs too much.
www.gq.com/story/no-irs-audits-for-the-rich - Comment on Im a weekly showerer 4 months ago:
The way I always heard it from multiple dentists is “if you want to keep your friends brush in the morning, if you want to keep your teeth brush at night, best is both.”
- Comment on Heave-ho! 7 months ago:
This is like the third time I’ve seen this post today, all in unrelated posts that just happen to be the top posts of the day.
Don’t feed the trolls, don’t fall for crypto scams
- Comment on too high for genetics, sorry 9 months ago:
I thought I had read something that said there never was a genetic or even chemical difference between sativa and indica, just the terpenes are different. Like how there’s all these different dog “breeds” but if you compare genetics they’re like 99% the same.
- Comment on card game shop 10 months ago:
Yeah but they can’t make other people wear it. There’s always that one person who thinks bathing in body spray is the same as actually bathing
- Comment on Manic Stew 10 months ago:
Inattentive meatstick
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 1 year ago:
That’s what color they are in the “visible” spectrum, I wonder what they look like if you added in the ultraviolet spectrum that bees and other insects can see
- Comment on Black Holes 1 year ago:
- Comment on Black Holes 1 year ago:
I think you’re referring to the ultraVIOLET catastrophe
- Comment on The scientific method 1 year ago:
One of the things I’ve read about why things are the way they are is a comparison to probabilities, the thought is that similar to how there is one and only one way to roll a bunch of dice and have them come up all ones, there would be one and only one way for there to be “nothing” in the universe given the existence of any energy because of how many different ways energy can exist it’s much more probable that you get a jumbled pile of all kinds of different things.
Now as for the question of “where did all this energy come from” you have to realize that even the vacuum of space contains energy of some level and the 'visible universe ’ that is all of the matter that interacts with electromagnetic fields only accounts for a tiny fraction of the total energy we can detect so it’s likely that the energies that make up our matter and universe came from “somewhere else” … but then where did that energy come from and then it’s turtles all the way down - Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 1 year ago:
Let me introduce you to something known as “at will employment”
- Comment on 🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month 🏳️🌈 1 year ago:
English as a Second Language
- Comment on Anyone else 1 year ago:
Pretty sure it’s space fascist all the way down. There are no good guys in the 40k universe
- Comment on I'm something of an expert myself 1 year ago:
I believe that vacuums also generate a ton of static charge as the air flows over the plastic hoses and such. They make special vacuums for electronic that are static free but expensive.
metrovac.com/…/datavac-electric-duster - Comment on Understanding your target audience when marketing 1 year ago:
Cash back
The dude who can freeze time (framed as him imagining) isn’t the one adding dildo shaped shampoo to women’s grocery carts to see if they’ll buy it when the get to the checkout. He just uses his time powers to, ahem, artistically admire women’s naked bodies when they’re grocery shopping and unaware they’re being the subject of his drawing - Comment on Two big Final Fantasy remakes are reportedly still in ‘active development’ 1 year ago:
It’s 8 isn’t it. It’s ok, I liked it too
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 1 year ago:
Is it worth giving up your data for a bigger screen?
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 1 year ago:
Are you?
Modern “Televisions” are pretty much smartphones with a big ass screen connected to them, and as such often requires an internet connection and some form of a login to use, even if you’re hardwired directly to it.Modern tvs aren’t just a screen that displays the data you send it, they’re a standalone ad serving machine
- Comment on How To Make Candles In The 18th Century | Townsends 1 year ago:
A friend of mine introduced me to this channel and I love it. They do such amazing historical recreation of so many different aspects of pre-modern life. One of my favorites
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 year ago:
It was widely compared to the matrix which I did, but watching later it is a great movie in its own right
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 year ago:
We found a used older one, used it just about daily for a couple years before my dumb ass left it in an oven that was too hot (some old ones only got to like 400F apparently) and caused a bunch of cracks. We messaged le cruset and after sending them some pictures and a sob story they sent us a brand new one.
Doesn’t need to be a new one or le cruset, enameled cast iron is just nice generally in my experience
- Comment on Anon recommends a cast iron pan 1 year ago:
Enameled cast iron is definitely a thing, our le cruset Dutch oven is a work horse
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 years ago:
The first Dark Souls was 2011. Diablo was released in 1997. World of Warcraft was 2004 and while you didn’t quite drop all your stuff and money you die you did have to run back to your corpse to keep from having all your stuff degrade and cost a bunch of money. The first Sonic was 1991 and getting hit makes you drop all your “money” and have to pick it back up.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 years ago:
The first ones I can think of is legend of Zelda and final fantasy, but I think there was also Adventure for the Atari before those even. The first Assassin’s Creed was 2007, Adventure was 1980
- Comment on My alarm clock doesn't work right 2 years ago:
IThere’s a pretty simple way to test the alarm, make it go off when your awake and waiting for it. Say the current time is 11:57, set the alarm for 12:00 and sit and wait for it to go off.
- Comment on Balatro celebrates 2 million sales, will feature major gameplay update in 2025! 2 years ago:
It’s really just poker solitaire with a bunch of math added to flavorful bonus cards, if you’re not really into poker, solitaire, or math it isn’t going to be the right game for you.
I have a buddy that hates RNG, mostly plays shooter games, he hates poker in all its forms because of the randomness but I feel like learning to deal with probably and chance are really good lessons that apply to broader life.
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 2 years ago:
One of my favorite science facts: Because of how the strength of gravity diminishes as you get further away and stronger as you get closer, when you approach to within arms length of another person (approx 1m) the gravitational attraction between the two masses of your bodies can exceed the gravitational attraction between your body and the sun at any given time.
- Comment on Moonring on Steam (free beer alert 2 years ago:
I’ve played through the first dungeon so far and I like it so far.