You can't use stats like this to show that "everything is fine" when what they are actually illustrating was a disaster for poor people. Even tho not everyone will be able to parse the flaws of that graph like I have here, they *experienced* the unemployment.

80% of those who lost their jobs in 2020 came from the bottom 25% of the wage distribution. Those low wage workers *disappeared from the count,* instantly raising the average income *by losing their jobs.*

Anyone who lost their job in 2020 simply disappears from the wage distribution the 10th percentile is calculated from. The chart you’re citing is actually showing how badly poor workers were hit.

That's a category error my guy. The labor force can grow overall and the number of extremely low-wage workers can fall — both are true. Whether the country added five million engineers has nothing to do with two million dishwashers getting knocked out of the dataset.

There was no Biden-era decrease in wealth inquality, period. Stop.

The graph doesn't show poor workers earning more, it shows poor workers disappearing from the count.

It's a statistical mirage. The 10th percentile spiked because millions of the lowest-paid workers got wiped out of the dataset in 2020. If you delete the lowest rungs of a ladder, the ‘bottom’ suddenly looks higher.

(Apologies for the delayed reply; I don't check bsky enough)

Sure, I get it. But Fetterman was never even pretending to be as far left as Platner is, and years of candid message board posts show the development of a very radical (in a good way) progressive worldview. Posts which were part of the same wave of oppo leaks as the tattoo pics.

So, to be clear, you think this is what's happening?

Oh brother where art thou kinda did the yellow thing same year and matrix did a blue/green thing. Not to contradict just to complement your point that ya don't see it much since the, uh, fin de siecle

You honestly think there's any chance he's secretly a Nazi? For some reason playing an absurd long game tricking the left into supporting him rather than just, I dunno, joining the overt Nazis currently ascendant in US politics?

They're going to have "AI" systems declared persons so they can frame resistance to the hype & harm of it as bigotry, and so they can charge people with murder when they inevitably start attacking data centers or whatever.

Do we know who wrote the note?