> Who'd imagine squeezing the middle class would backfire epically? Compensation hasn't reflected the GDP per capital increases for the majority of the workforce. I don't think even the productivity increases from personal computers in the end of the 1970's have trickled down.

Why would investments by employers result in higher compensation for employees?

That said, median real individual income has increased substantially since the 1970s: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/mepainusa672n

Pay and money are why people work, so yeah they're pretty important.

Money is just a tool to get what you actually want, the goal itself shouldn't be "more money", unless you want to miserable, because that hole you feel never gets filled by shoveling more money down it.

More money generally equals more freedom, even if you don't know what you want specifically, but you're ultimately talking about a bigger, unrelated issue.

Americans have the most disposable income on earth and a very high quality of life.

Trump's obvious graft, corruption, and general behavior disgust me, but why exactly would a meaningful number of people risk throwing their lives away to protest a man-baby who will be out of office in a little over 2 years if a cheeseburger doesn't get him first, and will probably be politically neutered in under 6 months?

No because he is setting an example other will follow now that they know that american citizens have no guts, pride nor morality and surrender faster than the french.

I think you will find the French are rather good at protesting and holding their government to account....

.....whereas Americans stereotypically mumble something about the Second Amendment keeping a government in check, then go back to being screwed over and launching a gofundme to pay for their chemotherapy.

> many of whom do more to establish the community you are touting than yourself

Citation needed

It looks like this is a poor attempt to argue for deregulation in the housing sector?

I agree that this is needed, but regulation would be required to compel neighborhoods to allow increased density as well...

If all the things you describe came to fruition, the current residents will have to live with the consequences of their decisions and suffer a lower quality of life (which they don't want to do), and the problem would resolve itself.

Or in reality, desirable locations remain desirable, and the current residents who had a hand in making it desirable have a right to prevent a reduction of their quality of life for the benefit of people who would prefer to live there but are unable to successfully compete with others in the housing market.

Excessive land use restrictions and downzoning inherently reduce the "compete" of the housing market, on purpose, for winners of prior cycles (frequently the deceased relatives of current owners).

Why does it matter? The data sources are cited and are publicly available.

It's basically just documenting the utter stupidity of a trade war with a close ally with whom we are tightly coupled economically.

> Why does it matter? The data sources are cited and are publicly available.

Because I don't want to click through to every data source to verify every figure and need some baseline level of trust about whether they've been correctly used.

If there's an error, I want to be able to contact the author somehow.

Because people want to turn absolutely everything into an excuse to argue about AI

I assume the data source citations are referencing Census Department API endpoints, I would make the data sources explicit by adding links.

You also might want to consider archiving the data if you aren't already given this administration's tendency to remove data that doesn't further their agenda.

Good lord. At what point do we need to just wipe the slate clean and start over?

> US healthcare system is inaccessible to close to 50% of your population

So you have no idea what you're talking about. What is the point of making comments like this that are both verifiably false with about 2 seconds of online research and just sound incorrect based on anecdotal data to anyone living in the US.