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:date: 2025-01-07 | ||
:modified: 2025-01-07 | ||
:status: draft | ||
:tags: culture | ||
:category: society | ||
:slug: america-declining-standard-of-living | ||
:authors: Shane Jaroch | ||
:summary: Critique of the standard of living in the USA. | ||
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**NOTE:** Work in progress. | ||
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Prices: housing, education, and inflation | ||
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Wage stagnation | ||
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Decline in welfare | ||
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Rise of "Populism" and the far-right | ||
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Pension programs | ||
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There was a landmark legislative law which ruined the pension program. | ||
(Similar to the rule against freelance software programmers and the guy crashing the airplane into the IRS building.) | ||
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Scarcity, pandemic disruption, and other economic factors | ||
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What are some of the factors explaining the apparent decline? |