How people feel about the economy seems to come down to how they're doing in this economy. All of those footnotes are accurate. And yet, people are still eating out at high levels. People still go out on weekends. We're still consuming at record levels. People are still choosing to spend large sums of money on these things. The problem is things that people need are still at high prices like groceries. The dirty secret is companies have pivoted to these prices being "the new normal". It's why I like that Kamala is talking about price gouging. That's definitely happening because companies feel they can get away with it. People complain about gas prices but they are at a normal level. Sure, it's not going to be pandemic level prices when the supply greatly exceeded the demand. Prices are never going back to that outside of a similar event.
I would love if people would stop blaming politicians for high prices or home ownership being out of reach and let's focus our ire at corporations who are making all of this mess because of their greed. Let's talk about corporations buying up neighborhoods and rental companies conspiring to keep prices high with bullshit algorithms that up everyone's rent. If the media would do their f'ing job, things might actually turn around.
