31 points

Drive through any American city and look at all the human suffering economic growth

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14 points

Economic growth is when the price of capital is artificially inflated by raising interest rates using a currency backed by imperialism

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11 points

Came here to say that it doesn’t matter because everybody is struggling, you put it better than I ever could. Good job.

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28 points

Doing the old second derivative of a quarterly variance and extending it to infinity trick, while ignoring all the underlying economic headwinds you’re currently sailing through.

Reminds me of the old XKCD Joke about Fastest Growing…

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8 points
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I’m naming my first born Brandon after Joe Brandon.

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I’m naming mine Fat

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12 points

Isnt amerika growth like 2 percent and china (after xi crashed and burned into the shadowrealms) 4.5? Is this some zeno shit

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It’s actually like double that, 8.8% for China

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9 points

Nah, i think they’ve gotten (or getting) down to 5 this year? They need to wind down construction in any case

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Imagine being that out of touch

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