Housing, healthcare, schooling, have all greatly greatly greatly outpaced inflation.
Yep. Economists can deny it all they want, but I also used to buy Whoppers in 1999 for $0.99. Did that routinely. They were indeed also larger and higher-quality then as compared to now (fuck your fucking crack-ass hedonic adjustments bullshit, it’s all lies). A Whopper that cost $0.99 in 1999 should cost $1.81 now.
Instead, it costs $4.19. Check for yo’ damn self.
But Noah Smith swears up and down all is good, rent is fine as it is — when anyone with a fucking clue knows that rent is absurdly high and unbearable for many families and is only getting worse.
When I first started looking at rental prices in the late 1990s, a person working an ok job could get a two-bedroom apartment in most cities (outside of NYC and SF) and be fine. Now that is true nowhere in the entire country. Don’t tell me apartments have just gotten so huuuuuuge (hedonic adjustments) and have so many extra features that they are so much better that they should cost 3x as much in real dollars than they did 25 years ago.
Because that’s a fuckin’ lie and we all know it.
Anyway, it’s not like you can travel back in time and rent those supposed “worse” apartment for the 1998 price. Why do economists think so damn poorly?
My boyfriend secretly took the condom off… so i thought.
It bothers me that men are always assumed to be doing something nefarious, by everyone.
Had this happen one time. Condom broke, disappeared inside her. At least we realized it in real time. Her fingers weren’t long enough to get it out, mine were. That was quite the fishing expedition.