Exactly. It was from 2023 and the economy was actually doing really well. Grocery prices were still high thanks to pandemic price jacking, but it was overall _better_. The "economically anxious" only decided to bitch and moan as a way to justify being racist. 😕
Because it’s true. People forget the price is a product of supply and demand. We, collectively, can affect demand. It is at least partly our fault. A++ to the journalist.
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Her titles seem to be built that way for shock value. Her articles, thankfully, are not as absurd.
They do still seem to suffer from that ivory tower elitism - which shouldn't be much of a shock given that she's a Harvard grad. But she doesn't seem to be on the take.
The way people are responding without taking so much as 30 seconds to google her as I did but still somehow finding the time to come up with these extreme responses is...disturbing.
Hate to say it but the one on the right is correct. If people stopped buying, prices would come down. I've had several friends complaining about inflation while buying a new luxury car every two years and vacationing all over the world.
Bless her heart, as the southerners say. She is not all women, thank creator. We know spincycle propoganda and gaslighting when we see it. It's not always obvious, but it's a gut feeling. My gut was a gift from my ancestors, surviving all dictators to this point. I often think about My Lost Freedom
I am the white descendant of an illegal immigrant, compelled by my humanity and morality to shout louder. My great great grandpa stowed away on a boat and arrived in the 1900s, most likely running from fascists to freedom. He bought his papers from a two-bit attorney. You know, the "American" way.
I have been to Japan twice. Once just after 9/11 and again in 2008. It is my second home, and I weap at the thought of what happened to the Japanese on American soil during WWII. My cousins from the south are headed to this same fate, and my white fathers cheer it on. I'm horrified, and yell louder.
I admired my great, great grandfather. He passed away in a mining accident. It was his bravery that I passed on his name to my daughter. And I am blessed to have been named like to my great,great grandmother. She passed away at 27 to blood poisoning. My great Grandpa never had a mother.
I find epigenetics fascinating. Our ancestors have prepared us to fight Fascism. They taught us how to pinch pennies in the great depression, when there wasn't even elastic for underwear. Our grandmas would turn off the lights so the ladies could 'adjust' at parties when their underwear came untied
They moved furniture to blockade doors so rowdy drunk soldiers couldn't break down their door on party weekends. I am part black Irish. (Spaniards raping the Irish during war) and was myself concieved through rape. It was Mother's day & my father wanted a son. He got a daughter with a vengence.
Maybe cuz chickens do make them in good amounts and in general need a lot less space and recourses to breed and grow and therefore it is cheaper to produce in comparison to other animal proteins?
I actually think — without reading the articles — both are valid points. She’s not making the points you guys think. I mean, why do the red hats bitch about inflation, then blow money on Jet Ski’s, golfing and sporting events?
Unfortunately, it really depends on the location. I've lived in a variety of different states, and I've not really come across a lot of vegan bakeries.... But the good thing is we can always make our own 😊
Conventional bakeries too, like Baker's Delight, have plant-based options. But I live in Melbourne's inner suburbs where it's easy to be vegan. And you're right, we can make our own.
I don’t really give a shit about eggs right now. I care a lot about this. It happened while no one was watching. No one is sharing. No one is talking about it. This is the death of us all.
In short, she appears to be a kook. Someone who decided it was their time to dump a pile of trash in a public area in the form of two horrible articles.
I have been saying this along. We have caused the prices to escalate. Don't pay the high rent price, don't buy the over priced house. Don't buy the eggs. Or eat less of them.
We are giving the okay if we give in and accept the overpriceness $$$ of it all.
Just stop. We have the power 💪
This is so simplistic. As are her articles. Yes we can control our spending to a point. But the housing crisis? That’s caused mostly by the horrific companies gobbling up housing for profit. Government needs to step in like in MN. No gaslighting please.
No. Maybe in some areas. In others, because the Air B N B craze came and went. I live in one of the most affordable cities in the Midwest. Many rentals are now owned by for profits from California or overseas and telecommuting is allowing for nearby Chicagoans 1/
To demand luxury condos/apartments. There is a very tight market now here and my children are likely going to have to move elsewhere to afford now. It’s not agents either. It’s greedy companies recognizing they can way overcharge. Can’t afford it? Too bad. This is being played out in a lot cities
The housing crisis is not caused by companies gobbling up housing for profit. It’s caused by housing being seen as an investment. Nobody wants to sell their house at a loss.
AirBnB has caused serious harm to available housing in Montréal so yes, 'big companies' are most definitely a part of the problem in areas where people want to visit.
I didn’t say they weren’t a problem. I just said that it’s not the main problem, not by a long shot. Housing didn’t suddenly become unaffordable because of AirBnB.
I see you encouraging unity & collective action, which is effective & empowering. I’d push back on the idea that we “caused” it, though. Let’s not victim- blame ourselves. Neither you nor I inflicted this on ourselves, but I will join you in solidarity to take back our power! 💪
I didn't read the articles, but she's right about one thing, suppliers are going to charge as much as the market will bear. Corporate profits are way up because apparently we are paying whatever they ask.
One time, I was doing work at the one of the poorest schools in city. I wanted to donate to help a little. The wonderful Principal told me to donate gift certs. from a burger place. Then she told me people get mad when the poor can take a kid out on Friday for a cheap meal. I hate those people.
"If people are so mad about high prices, why do they keep buying expensive things?" you're talking about groceries, things we need to live, you out of touch hag
I’ve read both articles now, finding them more thoughtful than the headlines would suggest.
I spent the day with my stomach in knots dreading to hear that Zelenskyy had caved, been brought to heel by the Trump/Putin regime. I was relieved to hear that he hadn’t, and had left the White House alive.
Writers need to be more careful with the headlines they put on articles. Yes, people should read more, but many many people are either too lazy, or they're too overwhelmed by the torrent of information coming at them that they can't make the time to read everything.
That is often but not always true, and it also doesn't change anything. Headline writers need to be aware that many people won't read anything but the headline.
They know that long form journalism is dying because of social media and the only way to get people’s attention anymore is with insane over the top headlines that are very misleading. It’s sad. Social media could probably use a little regulation. I mean it has helped end democracy..
The comments demonstrate why we have a political crisis in this country- most people aren’t reading the articles. We need to stop commenting and start reading 📚
Thank you for saying this! Annie Lowery of the Atlantic is an investigative journalist, married to the host of NYT’s Political podcast, the Ezra Klein show. Definitely NOT angling for a Trump cabinet spot! People are just ignorant.
I wish “influencers” would model better reading and linking behavior. Judging a book by its cover is a classic mistake for a reason. When people share articles it’s clear they haven’t read (note the Subscribe link in the screenshots) , that’s when I start ignoring them.
That’s disappointing. I was liking some of the things coming out of The Atlantic. Opinion pieces should be done away with, with have social media for that. (and yes that is my opinion!).
George, I like you, but please read the articles before commenting. From the inflation one: Sticker shock is real. And in surveys, people say that they are trading down bec ause of cost pressures. But in fact they are spending more than they ever have, even after accounting for higher prices.
Read the egg one! It has information about how awful the egg industry is - Male chicks have no role in egg production, so they are gassed, threshed, or crushed after hatching. Female chicks have their beaks trimmed without anesthetic.
Once grown, most are placed in battery cages, each bird allotted 67 to 86 square inches of space, smaller than a piece of printer paper. In these crowded conditions, laying hens cannot preen, move around, or spread their wings.
No, she is not. She's a lefty to her core, and is the partner of Ezra Klein. She is also a gifted writer and journalist. Rich Lowry is a political hack, not a very good writer, not a very good editor, and has never acquitted himself very well in public conversations or policy discussions.
You were one of the first people I followed when I came to Bluesky. This post made me pause. The answer to your first question would have taken one minute to answer for yourself and the second makes me wonder if you read the article.
I get her point about Americans buying expensive things while complaining about the price of eggs. Most of these things are being put on credit cards on which they are paying 29% interest. That’s why they can’t afford eggs.
Well, maybe because the top 10% of the income distribution are responsible for half of consumer spending. The rich get big ticket spending and the rest of us expensive eggs. Duh. I should have a gig at the Atlantic
I think that this might be JD Vance writing under a pseudonym like Ben Franklin did with Silence Dogood, that said, Dogood just poked fun at aspects of Colonial American life, while Annie Lowrey would just Vance covering for himself, poorly
I'm disappointed in you George, you joined a dog pile instead of reading the articles in question, where she talks about the horrible system of factory farms that exploit both farmer and animal in order to keep egg prices where they are, and in particular how egg producers are now an oligopoly.
The Atlantic has become a propaganda rag. For those who are unaware they are using what was a progressive publication like a Trojan horse. You pick it up thinking you will read some critical thinking but in reality it's now far from that.
Just so we know who’s doing the spending:
WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.”
And the Feds high interest rates are giving them more to spend.
She’s journalist who has written for NYT, Slate, the Washington Independent, The New Yorker, etc. She is also married to Ezra Klein, the co-founder of Vox.
She is one of the leading voices in support of universal basic income.
Me too! Thank you!!!! @georgetakei.bsky.social link to the article so people can make their own decisions and not just trash her. Love you @georgetakei.bsky.social but this just opened up a slew of attacks on a reputable, wise reporter.
It’s odd to me that any influential person/account wouldn’t know her? This is just about egg production!
She’s been very prominent in Econ and policy reporting for well over a decade! And I figured we’d all know by now that writers don’t pick their headlines, with The Atlantic being très clickbaity
Well then maybe her headline sucks? Like so many these days? It really bums me out that people think everyone should know everyone’s MO any more? He asked the question, people answered.
O also: yeah the headline sucks. I hope that by calling it clickbait, my agreement was apparent.
You may be much more generous than me if you take the account’s question about who she is at face value! 🙃 Maybe you value public convo as a principle more than me who misses expertise in the discourse?
It would be nice if huge accounts (i.e. whoever runs the beloved Mr Takei’s social) were more knowledgeable, on account of their influence. Ignoring the shade in their question is willful ignorance.
Instead of screenshots, how about links+commentary?
Yes, on that part we can agree. He has offered gift articles before. I think his frustration here is that even in liberal media, the victim blaming is strong, even if it’s an editor’s headline and not the content. Not Ok. What I’m having issue with here is the number of people acting like 1/
Ummm… Journalists don’t write their own headlines; copy editors do. (Former print journalist here.) Maybe actually read these articles and some of her other work before you start ignorantly spouting off about shit you know nothing about. You look ridiculous.
so she's a rich girl, she's gone too far, she knows it doesn't matter any way. she can rely on her old man's money ... 🎵
i notice her sycophants keep repeating the same irrelevant facts. are you annies sockpuppets?
It's disappointing that these headlines were posted, without links to the articles. The egg article is an interesting read. The other is at least worth a hard reflection and debate for the upper middle class. But, who can be bothered to read.
I had chickens for eggs when we had more land, & if people knew what goes into it, they'd know $2/dz isn't realistic for any profit margin.
Do people really not understand the ramifications of bird flu?
If you lose the birds, it takes months to get chicks to layers. Eggs are not made by machines!
Let's also remind people that not ALL hens are guaranteed to lay eggs. Or may be low producing hens. It's a big investment of time and money and ♥️ with an ROI of Fingers Crossed!
Sure, Annie Lowrey, the author of "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World," is basically the same as MTG.
"I've never heard of her, but I'm not going to let that stop me from having an opinion!"
Sorry can’t be distracted by garbage like eggs. I’m so furious that we’re abandoning Zelenskyy and Ukraine. I’m staying focused. I’ll deal with high egg prices. I will not deal with betraying democracy.
Orange turd and Vance tag teaming Zelenskyy made me so embarrassed to be an American. Putin‘s pawns…the both of them. Shouldn’t Congress be making the decisions about helping Ukraine? Orange turd knows nothing about diplomacy…he acts like a mob boss.
My apologies I misspelled sheer. It happens to the best of us, but I’m not the best and I don’t claim to be. But I do know that anyone that sides with Trump is a POS.
People write books all the time. Doesn’t mean they are the best people. Especially if they change for the worst. Example J.K. Rowling
The weird thing is that looking at her page on Wikipedia, she is a proponent of Universal Basic Income.. So she is smart enough to understand that UBI is a good idea, but then doesn't understand how everything else works? WTF.
Yeah, this is all our fault.
We should have never paid so much money for basic necessities like food.
We could have starved long ago. Inflation is only happening because of us!
No idea who she is, but does seem to be a gaslighter, claiming the problem with prices is because people need food, as though not eating will solve the problem of high prices... 🤦♂️
There's a bit more to it than the headlines suggest. She's actually a strong supporter of the UBI movement and an extremely talented journalist who doesn't align with the usual conservative drivel in the slightest.
The fact that the article was published by The Atlantic — one of the last bastions of quality American journalism — should have been an indication that this is not a one-dimensional hit piece.
Professional gas lighter, trying to switch the narrative so that we're the bad guys, like when they made us recycle cause WE'RE the ones polluting but like the top 10 companies are like responsible for like 50+% of pollution... I'm not saying recycling is bad, just that the real issue is still out
For your eggs, tons of live male chicks are thrown into grinders and killed and the hens are treated abominably. She sounds judgmental but really people should quit eating eggs anyway.
"Why do you keep buying expensive things?"
"Because things are expensive"
"So its not really a problem, is it?"
"Yes, on account of the expensiveness we talked about"
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"Industrialization made eggs cheap. But it came with a cost, particularly for the animals that produced them."
Which is fair enough.
Our free range chickens don't charge us a dime. They'll even give us a "buck" from time to time.
They do still seem to suffer from that ivory tower elitism - which shouldn't be much of a shock given that she's a Harvard grad. But she doesn't seem to be on the take.
#BananaSaysNUR
> scandalized... with cheese
We are giving the okay if we give in and accept the overpriceness $$$ of it all.
Just stop. We have the power 💪
Annie, ovoids are not ovals. For one, ovals are two-dimensional.
I spent the day with my stomach in knots dreading to hear that Zelenskyy had caved, been brought to heel by the Trump/Putin regime. I was relieved to hear that he hadn’t, and had left the White House alive.
#TrumpRussia connection https://youtu.be/O1FHtBu5H8w
Like food
Clothes
...
'She's an idiot... and she's an idiot.'
WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%.”
And the Feds high interest rates are giving them more to spend.
She is one of the leading voices in support of universal basic income.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lowrey
She’s been very prominent in Econ and policy reporting for well over a decade! And I figured we’d all know by now that writers don’t pick their headlines, with The Atlantic being très clickbaity
You may be much more generous than me if you take the account’s question about who she is at face value! 🙃 Maybe you value public convo as a principle more than me who misses expertise in the discourse?
It would be nice if huge accounts (i.e. whoever runs the beloved Mr Takei’s social) were more knowledgeable, on account of their influence. Ignoring the shade in their question is willful ignorance.
Instead of screenshots, how about links+commentary?
nope, she just went to Hahvahd, no degree listed.
i notice her sycophants keep repeating the same irrelevant facts. are you annies sockpuppets?
Do people really not understand the ramifications of bird flu?
If you lose the birds, it takes months to get chicks to layers. Eggs are not made by machines!
Don't know what I was thinking.
Anyway, there's gonna be a new $250 bill with Trump's face on it. If I ever get me one of those, I'm gonna use it to buy a dozen eggs.
Because fuck that would be devastating.
Just another batch of assholes.
"I've never heard of her, but I'm not going to let that stop me from having an opinion!"
Distraction after Distraction!
#TrumpRussia connection https://youtu.be/O1FHtBu5H8w
People write books all the time. Doesn’t mean they are the best people. Especially if they change for the worst. Example J.K. Rowling
instead of eggs.
Yeah, this is all our fault.
We should have never paid so much money for basic necessities like food.
We could have starved long ago. Inflation is only happening because of us!
AKA D. Lulu. Copium.
@nxthompson.bsky.social
@annielowrey.bsky.social
That’s my wife you’re talking about.
That’s Michelle…
"Because things are expensive"
"So its not really a problem, is it?"
"Yes, on account of the expensiveness we talked about"
Maybe she wants to be the new "Axis Sally"...