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slow down on the shooting! you’re gonna run out of lasers!

as a result, taking on college debt in general gets riskier and riskier and the steadily increasing cost of education just adds to the risk.

ah. i got ya.

so where i personally take umbrage on the whole issue is that for a lot of jobs, the degrees aren’t necessary, colleges have been run in such a way as to become prohibitively expensive, the job market is becoming steadily more precarious, and the return on investment is diminishing.

a chart showing the steadily growing average federal student loan debt source: https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt

college debt has been steadily getting higher and higher, restricting the purchasing powers of graduates and often throwing them into both short term and long term financial precarity.

if you struggle to see why that’s an issue, i don’t know what i could say to convince you.

if rent, health insurance, and student debt are choking your finances to death, it doesn’t matter how cheap food and clothing are, because you’re not going to be able to afford it.

it’s not like people forgo buying insulin to put food on the table for fun.

if rent, health insurance, and student debt are choking your finances to death, it doesn’t matter how cheap food and clothing are, because you’re not going to be able to afford it.

it’s not like people forgo buying insulin to put food on the table for fun.

you’ve conveniently left out that building codes discouraging smaller footprints, zoning laws banning multi family units, and nimbys constantly voting down new developments all push up the cost of housing as well. it’s not just one trend.

A chart showing the cost of college shooting up over the course of six decades Source: https://educationdata.org/average-cost-of-college-by-year

a chart showing the steadily growing average federal student loan debt source: https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt

A graph showing the cost of housing shooting up over the past three decades Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/rent-house-prices-and-demographics

A graph showing the cost of healthcare shooting up over the past four decades Source: https://www.kff.org/health-costs/health-policy-101-health-care-costs-and-affordability/?entry=table-of-contents-how-has-u-s-health-care-spending-changed-over-time

what’s funny is that the lines, lots of them actually, *are* going up

just not in a good way

i think the main thing a lot of you “the economy is better than it’s ever been” types are failing to grasp is that it really—and i mean REALLY—makes it look like you don’t give a shit about poor people.

i posted a link that shares in multiple ways how american’s purchasing power has been steadily weakening over the decades and your only response is, “well less people are working multiple jobs, so it can’t be that bad”

that’s not a compelling counter argument

a chart showing the steadily growing average federal student loan debt source: https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt

Student Loan Debt Statistics [2025]: Average + Total Debt Find student loan debt statistics, including the national debt balance, average individual balance, and annual growth rates.

not the flex you think it is when college debt is exploding and is holding back a significant portion of the population’s spending potential and putting their financial well being into jeopardy

A graph showing the cost of housing shooting up over the past three decades Source: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/rent-house-prices-and-demographics

housing costs aren’t pretty these past couple decades

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts Our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living standards of low- and moderate-income Americans. This disappointing living-standards growth—which was i...

here are nine measurements to your one calling out your nonsense

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts Our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living standards of low- and moderate-income Americans. This disappointing living-standards growth—which was i...

things are so good in fact, that it’s not like organizations like the economic policy institute could possibly cover how wages are stagnating on multiple levels

false by every possible measure as long as you ignore the important things, like education, home ownership, healthcare, etc.

A photo of a concrete wall with the notice “BILL POSTERS WILL BE PROSECUTED” spray painted onto it in stencil lettering Underneath is hastily scrawled graffiti that reads “BILL POSTERS IS INNOCENT!”

hoard them. they can only increase in value from here.

love this

fun fact, the swarm of bees card is actually an image variation of this card!

and instead of the variation card code being #145B, they made it #145BEE 🐝

this means a lot to read, in multiple ways

thanks man, seriously

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

my friend: why haven’t you been sharing a lot of your journal drawings lately?

me: because i’m drawing my emotions and my emotions have been not good ❤️ 👍 🕊️ 🌱

remember the ‘fight for $15 (minimum wage)’ movement from just a few years ago? that amount suddenly sounds laughably small.

not only are they getting paid less at face value, but due to rapidly increasing costs on everything from healthcare to housing over the past few decades, that $18 buys even less than it did twenty years ago.

i wonder if we’re at the point where even single payer healthcare are going to fix things and that we need to take a long, deep look at our health care infrastructure and how we implement it overall

as i said to someone else in this thread i understand the reasons why and i appreciate you sharing.

none of that changes the fact that it’s growing increasingly unaffordable and putting people into very tight situations to the point where many can’t afford even the most basic of healthcare anymore.

the truth is, I have no idea -- and several states, in fact, did not have any idea -- how this guidance would be implemented and what it would mean in practice. which is the problem, of course. it creates only more confusion around a program in serious trouble.

better this than magnum pi

Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts Our country has suffered from rising income inequality and chronically slow growth in the living standards of low- and moderate-income Americans. This disappointing living-standards growth—which was i...

the economic policy institute has multiple ways of illustrating how wages have been stagnating for decades. blaming anything on a bubble is dismissively simplistic.