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Nearly 3 in 5 incorrectly believe US is in economic recession (fox59.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Fascinating little window

Almost 60% of respondents wrongly believe that the country is in a recession (it hasn’t been since 2020)
55% believe the economy is shrinking (it is growing)
49% say unemployment is at a 50-year high (it’s close to a 50-year low)
58% said the reason the economy is worsening is due to Biden’s mismanagement

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I don’t care how the economy is doing for big businesses and rich people. It’s not doing well for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It’s interesting to me that the reaction is so unanimous

Like practically every single person’s reaction is “fuck the metrics, economy only works for big business, don’t they know I’m hurting.” It’s not like a variety of different thoughts or reactions or anything related to the disparity between the polling that was the content of the article. Literally it could be any story about “economy of US” and most of the comments in this article would apply to it exactly equally as well.

(Actually one person did criticize the fact that it was Fox that wrote the story)

Anyway I just thought it was a little interesting. Also look at the main page; most stories have like 0 comments, or 3 or something, and then all the “Biden” or “economy” stories have a big bunch of comments, with pretty much the exact identical conversations going on in them

It is interesting, to me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I mean it is a common sentiment that has been measured:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240502151808/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/opinion/biden-trump-consumer-confidence-economy.html

Beyond that if you are insinuating that it is a coordinated campaign of people doing this, I mean yeah that's probably true to some extent. But the reason why they are targeting that is because they know it is a weak point.

So posting an article showing that the cost of living is going down would make that kind of sentiment less justified.

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