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In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product's and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in general.

Why? Did COVID made this happen? How?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Then 2008 happened.

I am going to assume you reference the financial meltdown that had been brewing for years and had been fore-ordained by the weakening of regulations by prior administrations... correct?

edit: but, of course it could also he the incoherent rage of the right over a non-white president. so many options, so little thoughtfulness from a certain segment of the electorate.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're obviously talking about the recession. You're ascribing malice for absolutely no reason in an attempt to distract from economic realities

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I was honestly ascribing nothing to the parent comment. it was a genuine request for clarification (with a little editorializing of my own).

if my comment was not to your liking, then so be it, but I assure you that no malice was intended.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I meant the financial meltdown. I debated calling it the 2007, as that is when the cracks started. I acknowledge that the financial meltdown has is roots far earlier, but all financial meltdowns do.