cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15071058
The ABC News/Ipsos poll found that economy and inflation were among the top issues for Americans in this upcoming presidential election, with more Americans saying they trust Trump on the issues than Biden. Eighty-eight percent of Americans in the survey said the economy was important when deciding whom to vote for, and 85 percent said the same for inflation.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted online among 2,260 adults April 25-30 and has a margin of sampling error of 2 percentage points.
The awful part is that Biden has been significantly better on the economy.
I guess perception is what matters here.
“Reaganomics has destroyed the well-being of the American people! Do it harder!”
When I was in the military, there was this saying that I thought was so, so stupid: “Perception is reality.” They said it over and over like it was the most insightful advice they were giving us. Me, being a rational person, was like…that’s fuckin’ dumb. No, it isn’t.
Turns out, being rational is a waste of time. If enough people believe something, it’s functionally true in many cases. (To be clear, not believing in covid killed people, but believing that the medical industrial complex is full of “anti-democratic” technocrats didn’t). It seems that having beliefs completely divorced from reality only matters if reality as a way of reinforcing itself, often forcefully. Otherwise, it’s elephants and turtles all the way down.
Interesting. I mostly said it in a sense that economics is primarily a social science. The way people think something is more or less makes it self fulfilling. Like a recession is in part characterized by lower demand. People that think we are in one might start to save to get a head of the pain; saving lowers demand.
The citizenry isn’t feeling it though. You go to buy a car and the interest rate is 10%, but you need the car to go to work since WFH isn’t an option anymore, and the price of food and gas and insurance is only going up, never going down…
People don’t give two shits about the economic indicators Biden is watching and he shows no compassion for what people are going through.
Since when has WFH no longer been an option? It’s more popular than ever.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/90percent-of-companies-say-theyll-return-to-the-office-by-the-end-of-2024.html
"A whopping 90% of companies plan to implement return-to-office policies by the end of 2024, according to an Aug. report from Resume Builder, which surveyed 1,000 company leaders. Nearly 30% say their company will threaten to fire employees who don’t comply with in-office requirements.
Only 2% of business leaders said their company never plans to require employees to work in person."
And yet:
https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2024-01-25/remote-work-has-radically-changed-the-economy-and-its-here-to-stay#:~:text=Today%2C remote work has declined,degree is close to half.
“Today, remote work has declined from its levels of the pandemic but is still – depending on how broadly one measures it – three to four times as prevalent as it was in 2019. And the percentage of workers who still say they want the option of working from home to some degree is close to half.”
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/03/30/about-a-third-of-us-workers-who-can-work-from-home-do-so-all-the-time/
“Roughly three years after COVID upended U.S. workplaces, about a third (35%) of workers with jobs that can be done remotely are working from home all of the time, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. This is down from 43% in January 2022 and 55% in October 2020 – but up from only 7% before the pandemic.”
https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/hr-payroll/remote-work-statistics/
Oh the work can definitely be done from home, but I think the difference between your link and mine is where we’re at currently vs. where corporate leaders want us to be by the end of 2024.
I’m fortunate in that I’ve been working from home now since 2018, but I had to get a medical exemption last year. Without that, they’d be demanding return to office.
And yet several instances in my links suggest WFH growth by 2025.
I legitimately hope so, but that’s going to require corporate leaders to either be wrong or actively worked against.
Especially the 30% who want to fire people instead of allowing WFH.