Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

Yea I'm sure Cletus buying shit at a flea market is what's killing us! It's not Bezos going out for coffee on a 747

People need to stop shitting on their neighbours that's exactly what the Epstein class wants.

We could all grow our own tomatoes jog to vacation and never turn on the AC and it would do fuck all for climate change.

It's the fucking corporations and fucking mega rich that are profiting by raping the planet then dumping the cost into us as if me taking 5 min showers is what the real problem is!

Every time you blame the average person trying to survive you absolve assholes like Musk Thiel and the rest of the billionaire pieces of shit.

Basically to put it in other terms it'd be like living on the Adriatic during the late medieval era and watching Venetian ships coming to port less and less. You may not know what's causing it exactly but you know it's not good regardless.

We're killing each other and destroying ecosystems and the climate... so that we can make... this. We're fucked.

They're referring to that corridor being one of the largest in terms of supply chain for the rest of the county.

A slow down in that supply chain is an indicator of weak retail demand.

I can't quantify anything for you, but it sounds like another indicator that the stock market doesn't actually represent how well 'the economy' is doing.

To be sure, Briggs said inflationary pressures are likely also hurting confidence. But he said “lower happiness” at large can partially explain the continued disconnect between sentiment and other measures of the economy’s performance, such as gross domestic product growth or stock market performance, that offer rosier views.

It's almost shocking how out of touch they are. The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 93% of stocks according to a 2024 article.

Briggs also cited a connection between lower overall happiness readings and decreasing trust in institutions. He found that lower trust in these bodies caused a “disproportionate amount” of the decline in net happiness in recent years.

Given the connection to non-economic variables, consumer sentiment readings may not improve even if the economy continues chugging along, Briggs said. As a result, consumer sentiment may become a less useful predictor of economic dynamics, he said.

It's like a parody, or something the onion would write. Economists aren't serious people.