Yeah, poor people can buy tv sets and cell phones now. Those things are definitely cheaper than they used to be.
You know what's not cheaper than it used to be? The big ones: housing, health care, education.
That's the problem. People look at how almost everyone has a refrigerator, and a ton of poor people have tv sets, and think "they're not hard off at all!!!1! rising tides!! boates!!!" while ignoring how rents are skyrocketing and it took a major law to make health care even nominally affordable again.
Haha, nominally affordable. Thanks to Obamacare, my health care premium went up 30% and everyone in my family had to change primary care doctors, including my kids, who'd been seeing the same pediatrician for 16 and 18 years.
You know what's not cheaper than it used to be? The big ones: housing, health care, education.
That's the problem. People look at how almost everyone has a refrigerator, and a ton of poor people have tv sets, and think "they're not hard off at all!!!1! rising tides!! boates!!!" while ignoring how rents are skyrocketing and it took a major law to make health care even nominally affordable again.