I’m glad I’m not the only one noticing the intensity of the owner class currently trying to beat us over the head attempting to normalize this level of desperation as the new best case scenario for the peasants.

“you just don’t understand, We the owners are supposed to be making record private profits while You struggle for food and shelter. That means the system is working perfectly. If you don’t agree, the economists on our payroll, and the payrolls of for private profit news conglomerates, want you to know that you just don’t understand economics!”

What we understand is that Wall Street captured our government, and we understand that most modern economists demanding we love this economy are the paid by the owners to say what benefits the owners, and are practically the priesthood for advocating maintaining our current modern rigged market capitalism.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-homelessness-up-12-percent-to-highest-reported-level-as-rents-soar-and-pandemic-aid-lapses

Homelessness is a growing epidemic. So is food insecurity. In the “richest nation on Earth.” An economist that can either ignore that or spin that as somehow not the point is akin to an economic flat earther. Of course they only see “the economy” through the lens of the economic class that pays them.

Reminder: An economy is supposed to be a lowly tool of a society to maximize the efficient and equitable distribution of goods and services for the benefit of said society. Our society subsists in service to recklessly growing/metastasizing our economy. The tail has been wagging the dog since at least Reagan, it’s perverse, and it’s poisoned any pro-social cultural values we once had to their core.