You might wonder what the ruling class thinks of how inflation is hitting middle America. For insight into their perspective, Bloomberg News just published some suggestions for all the unwashed masses – as defined as those who don’t earn $300,000 per year.
The advice includes, shut up about the price of food, and eat lentils instead of meat. Quit bitching about gasoline prices, and just ride the bus, and the coup de grâce, “If you’re one of the many Americans who became a new pet owner during the pandemic, you might want to rethink those costly pet medical needs.”
Yeah, they said that. Us pesky proles and our pets are just mucking up the planet for the rest of them.
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The ‘inflation sucks, but that’s your issue, not ours’ article is authored by Teresa Ghilarducci. According to her self-described bio, she “is the Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research. She’s the co-author of “Rescuing Retirement” and a member of the board of directors of the Economic Policy Institute.”
So, the think-tank economists who shape policy have a solution for all the complaining scrubs earning less than $300,000/yr who are now dealing with the inflation that leftist policy has created. The elitist arrogance, in the “no one said this would be fun” approach, is quite remarkable. However, it does show the snob-set no longer feel the need to filter their elitism.
The class gap has always existed, and whenever leftist policies are in place, that gap gets wider every second.
It would appear that somewhere in the recesses of Ms. Ghilarducci’s frontal cortex, she has snuffed out the glowing ember of the common sense particle given by her parents. In the brain of the Bloomberg author, the synapse for the common sense particle was pinched between the ‘Smarter than thou tumor‘ and the expanding grey brain matter of moral relativity needed to sit and type this bulls**t.
Within her diatribe, you can see the author is lacking a guilt hypothalamus, which removes any feeling of being uncomfortable in her elitist pontifications. She types away, without a clue, as the party groupthink metastasizes in her brain.
The working class really, I mean REALLY, needs to stop servicing the group who hold this mentality. I’ve said this before and I’ll repeat it again. Don’t do their shopping, don’t make them coffee, don’t pick up their trash, don’t clean their pools, cook their meals, accept their laundry or dry cleaning, or facilitate any process in their lives.
Don’t serve them, don’t wait on them, don’t deliver to them; instead, make them do everything themselves, and you know what will happen – they’ll collapse.
Need an Organization who’s sole purpose is to expose and destroy all elements of Socialism and Communism…. Recruit, educate and train our own cadres and soldiers to stop this evil once and for all…
Theresa Ghilarducci is the economist who seriously proposed in testimony before Congress that the government should sieze all retirement accounts and issue vouchers for a federally backed retirement. Because the stock market was to volatile and hard for the proles to understand. And oh by the way, some people have more than others and that was not fair.
She is a snake in the grass and cannot be trusted.
Her and several million people all over the country, gov employee or not.
Yep!
Any “retirement account” system, is a magnet for grifters; whether its Social security, pension plans, whatever.
The collectivist idea IS attractive; everyone puts a little aside, for when they get too old to work, ALL that money is “invested”, and then when they retire, they can draw on that $.
But that means Billions of $, and nobody can be trusted, with that much money.
Whether its the mob taking over Union pension plans, Corporations raiding their companies pensions, or Congress stealing from the Social Security funds, and leaving an I.O.U. (and yes, I DO understand how SS ‘works’) as the results of mismanaging US for many decades, they WILL take EVERYONES “retirement” soon,…count on it.
One of the reasons ancient societies had large families, with lots of children, was THAT was, in part, their ‘retirement’ system; lots of adult children could ‘share the burden’.
Author of the “MYra”..Steal what people have saved and sacrificed all their lives for, lived beneath their means, deprived them of a decent safe return on their savings, or their pensions, after sending their jobs to China, ad nauseum.
Horrible cretin.
I just watched Robert Kennedy Jr. telling Tucker that the world gained 500 new billionaires during the pandemic while the middle class lost it’s ass. H
I grew up with nothing. I’ll do just fine. Those who have developed a “lifeStyle”….. less so.
My husband and I both grew up poor (we have a combined 16 siblings believe me, we know poor) but you know what? Being poor sucks.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
^^THIS^^
Not necessarily so. I grew up without running water or electricity in the house. The outhouse in Minnesota winters is brutal but, as I look back over my life of 75 years, those are some of my overall best memories. Not all of course, but lots and lots of good memories and I learned a lot of self sufficiency. I’m very comfortable these days but could get along without current “luxury “ conditions quite well again if needed.
Don’t buy in bulk? What an odd thing to say.
Maybe she means in a restaurant don’t order a bunch of extra stuff you won’t eat.
Maybe, emet, she means we should buy our eggs one or two at a time instead of a dozen like we do now.
Or instead of buying a whole loaf of bread we buy it a couple slices at a time.
How we should space out our purchases of these items so the cost will not stress our ever dwindling finances.
I would like to write what some one needs to do to “educate” this woman if they run into her on the street but I would be banned for life from commenting.
Unfortunately my response if ran into her on the street would be spit in her face. I have no more patience for this communist scum … and I have even less for those who voted for Biden
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Wouldn’t piss on her, if she were on fire.
One of the things that I have noticed, couldn’t help noticing, as it is so stark;
its MORE than just “tone deaf”; they say something that is,..more than just “insensitive”; its something that shows a TOTAL lack of empathy.
And, they either are unaware, or just don’t CARE that they have exhibited a total lack of empathy.
This,..biotch actually WROTE it, she composed the words, had time to THINK (?) about it, revise it, and had no inclination to reword it?
Its like Grenholm, when they asked her about gas prices, and she just laughed.
Marie Antoinette may never have actually SAID “Let them eat cake”, but these ,..people (?) are openly, blatantly exhibiting that exact attitude; lack of empathy, and not even self-conscious of their lack of empathy!
Bring on the guiotines, I’m ready.
I believe the best selling book,“The Sociopath Next Door,” explains this woman. According to the book, 1 in 25 Americans has no conscience and feels absolutely no guilt!
I read that. It’s good. Shocking to get your head around that there are so many.
I guarantee you that she voted for Biden.
Buying in bulk is a way to save money on the price per unit. The problem is that you have to have some baseline wealth to buy in advance to avoid the price increase later. You can’t tell people living check to check that they should just buy a few cases now they can’t afford a few cases.
I hear you, but it’s a lot cheaper than you think. If you buy those little boxes of rice mixes for $1-1.50 each, you get a tiny portion of rice, the rest is seasonings and fillers. However, if for one paycheck, you buy 10lbs of rice for $5 it’s equal to many, many of those little boxes. The next paycheck you buy a 1lb bag of dry beans rather than a can or two (each can is equal to approximately a couple Tablespoonfuls of beans that have expanded due to the canning process). Over a few months time, you will have lots of pantry staples to rely on. You don’t have to go blow hundreds of dollars on bulk foods, just shop differently.
My two cents.
The bernie sanders version if communism: lines are good because it means the store has bread.
Did she ever read about a loaf of bread and Jean Valjean?
Victor Hugh’s writings offer far too much empathy and humanity for her. Let us hope that retribution will catch up with her when she least expects it. My only question: will it come soon? Will it come with anguish, humiliation, and long suffering? Will she fear the dark? I hope so.
It’s not just odd, emet. It’s pathetically stupid.
Or worse yet, deliberately trying to put people who are struggling into even worse shape during times of prices rising from week to week.
But hopefully, most people will use their heads and do the math and figure out it’s worth it to buy more at a lower price th/ wait for prices to rise.
“Don’t buy in bulk”—IOW, “Don’t prepare for hard times. You are supposed to perish on our timeline, not yours.”
Millions will die thinking the people who did this to them were misled, not evil.
Don’t go to Costco or Sam’s Club. Don’t buy more than you need right now. So, in other words, don’t stock up for hard times so that you’re easier to kill off! That person is insane or evil or probably both!
It’s not odd because they know millions of Americans are buying in bulk right now because they know what’s coming. To not put away for hard times is irresponsible. They want us poor, needy, and desperate, so they can swoop in and take command of our lives. And I’ll say this, my “self-defense” code applies to all my possessions.
I looked up the percentage of people who make over $300,000. It is in the top 2%. So, 98% of all Americans make less than $300,000.
The tweet is sickening, but the article is clueless because it passes off what is catastrophic for some people as being somehow not too bad. For example, saying that people can switch to less expensive alternatives and it will help them be more resilient. Consume plants, rather than meat, since it is healthier and cheaper. Or adjustment is hard for people without savings or choices…..duh!
Steve Bannon pointed out that about 64% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. That means the majority of people are finding this inflation hard to very hard. Many people were already living lean before inflation.
This afternoon, I saw a number of people who were buying to stock up and this is rather unusual because it is not the first of the month. The shelf with the large Ramen noodle soup box with 12 packages was emptying fast with only beef flavor left. Large cans of pork and beans and canned spaghetti sauce (not jars) were emptying. This is the food of poverty.
Thank you, Sundance, for your insights last year.
This week I was in a BJs and I was one of the youngest people in there and I’m in my fifties. There were lots of seniors buying meat (chicken mostly) and coffee. This is a significant demographic change. My brother in law manages an Acme up the street from a BJs. He says his main customer demographics are yuppies and old people. He assumes that the people with families are shopping at bjs. If the old people are switching over to bulk shopping (where the meat and produce are significantly cheaper) this spells very bad news for regular grocery stores.
Aldi has a lot of good stuff that’s inexpensive and so does wal-mart. But the fancy grocery store where I live sometimes has BOGO and their sale itmes are at a better price than regular stores; after 8 pm their artisan bread is BOGO and is a better price than grocery store bread. When I’m really broke I use my Walgreens rewards in their frozen food section and grocery aisle.
During the pandemic it came out that due to the requirement to have use by dates on groceries, that up to 40% of goods were thrown out; the law was changed in my state to require them to try to give food away before throwin it away. My building is owned by a non-profit and they have market rate, low income and section 8 people living here so food gets dropped off near the management office, sometimes it’s boxes of non-perishables, which is entertaining; first there are boxes then there are stacks of whatever people don’t want, canned goods, pasta, oatmeal, which slowly diminish; then there are many programs to feed schoolchildren, there are snack bags, food sent home for weekends, and the result of that is bags of apples, individual portions of goldfish crackers, applesauce and things like that. Sometimes there are gallons of milk from Costco and double-bagged bread. Sometimes there are gallon zip loc bags wtih fried rice, or bags of carrots and bags of flour tortillas–they’re usually together which makes me laugh because it’s usually just carrots and tortillas together.
“use by/sell by” dates are largely meaningless on most food items, outside of meat/dairy. I’m in a food shortage alert FB community and folks are using up dry and canned items from several years back, all still fine and edible.
That’s amazing. I’m glad to hear it.
Not agreeing with this heartless, sanctimonious biotch, at ALL.
We HAVE gotten a little ‘spoiled’ from all the prosperity we have enjoyed.
One of the reasons people who buy an older house (built in the 50’s or older) redo the kitchen cabinets is because dinner plates are bigger in diameter, now. Our 10-11″ diameter plates won’t fit in cabinets built for 8-9″ plates.
Dinner, during the depression and after, did not consist of a 6-11 oz piece of fish, chicken, pork or beef, with vegetables and potatoes or rice.
You cut that piece of meat up into bite size pieces, (one, MAYBE two of the 6-11 oz pieces) put it in a pan with the vegetables, and the rice or potatoes, and feed a whole family.
Head of cabbage, cut up, put in crock pot with water, little salt. When its starts to get tender, add polish or smoked sausage, and diced peppers.
Hamhocks and beans, with cornbread,..stews, soups, lots of GREAT “Depression era” recipes,..my Dad grew up in the depression, and I had 5 siblings,..we ate that way, a lot and for me its “comfort food”.
One year for Christmas my mother gifted each of her seven daughters a Depression Era Cookbook. I still have it along with a cookbook that I found in a second hand store with recipes for whatever a forager could shoot or catch on his land. I thought it was interesting. Never thought I would actually need it.
Klaus wants us all eating bugs and fake Gates of Hell pseudo meat.
I don’t think so!!
Reinstating the actual winner of the fraudulent 2020 election, is a sure way of reversing this self enforced series of own goals.
Amen brother!
We proles will continue to serve. It’s what we do. We suffer and we continue to serve those who make us suffer and make our lives miserable. Why? Who knows?
If women swimmers wanted to stop male swimmers from competing in women’s events, all they have to do is STOP participating in the sham. Why don’t they?
If we wanted to hold woke corporations accountable, all we need to do is STOP patronizing their businesses. Pull your money out of Big Banks, stop buying Coke/Pepsi and Nikes, stop attending NFL and MLB games. Why don’t we?
If we wanted to send a message to woke Hollywood, we would STOP paying to see movies, streaming Netflix, going to Broadway plays. But we don’t.
The sad fact is that we don’t need to DO anything, we just need to STOP doing things. It doesn’t even require any action. But we don’t. Why?
Luz, we are more powerful than we know. The 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms is great, but before we go there, how about we just STOP financially supporting and serving our enemies. There are easier and less dangerous ways to fight. And, again, no one is asking you to do anything. Just STOP giving them your money, your business, your time and your participation. Female swimmers, stop participating in these meets! Who is Lia going to swim against if no one shows up? It can be that easy.
The pandemic and theft of the election have served me well in this regard. I turned to exercise, gardening, reading, meditation. Spending time with like-minded friends& family. Getting banned from social media was a blessing. I now try to keep my money local.
Silver lining…..good for you!
IDK, I still have a list on my fridge from summer 2020 of corporations that fell all over themselves to donate to BLM. Pretty much the same that the CEOs signed a letter for Trump to give up election fraud claims. I haven’t been to Walmart since the “sore losers” comment – and I must say, it’s not easy to avoid these corporations. But boo-hoo, that’s the easy part.
Shop local, shop small.
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I need to figure out what to use instead of Google and get a different email account. I use a credit union, don’t drink soda or their related products, buy German or Israeli shoes not because I’m a snob but I have a bad knee and removable cork insoles are better for me. I canceled Spotify and am using free Pandora. I usually shop at a local grocery store and am fortunate in that there are a few small chains and one independent stand-alone store.
You can use Brave and get a Proton Mail account.
I started Brave a week ago and I really like it.
You hadn’t noticed how much Facebook’s stock is down?
Exactly. The Commie left doesn’t finance us but we finance the Commie left that actually hate us.
Put the brakes on USG spending: Claim “EXEMPT” on your W4. Then, file amended returns for previous years.
I am going to look into that. Good one.
I like your solution Sundance! Sometimes people just need a little attitude adjustment.
Hey if they’re so smart just do all that shit you don’t wanta do yourself then.
How about I just skip all of those suggestions and just vote MAGA instead . 🙂
I remember a saying from the activists back in the late 60’s. “Eat the rich” Maybe it’s time we all took that to heart in a round about way.
retarded democrats think that they are eating the rich today! lol
I told one he was supporting and helping the rich global 1% elite
and they were making everyone else poor
and he told me to go F myself!
I was surprised I got such a harsh reaction from him
but when you pierce straight thru their fake reality
all you get is a emotional outburst.
I’m surrounded by these retards and I know exactly how to push their buttons lol
The Democrats are the 1% . & are the communists they always were
What a total POS! This should be printed on flyers
Ok… this is teribl-llyyyy funny…
Twitter thread reply, with attached photo:
“Written by Teresa Ghilarducci”
Reply:
”Who is he?”
Never heard of him 🤣
Some have been having some parody fun with this one.
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Next week…. “Let’s talk about that extra kidney.” 😬
The Aristotelian Response… fight with humor !
How about mikey bloumberg and all his zombies eat the lentils, kale, tofu (GAG), grass in the cow field and whatever else they desire, then leave the rest of us alone.
This creature must be directing her patronizing airs down toward us deplorables … you know, the ones that the elite snicker at …
Well, well well. I knew her name sounded familiar. Mark Levin interviewed her back in 2012 on Social Security and 401Ks and recorded the conversation.
Do listen, treepers, you’ll live this. It’s a classic.
Interview was actually from 2008.
Thanks. Good catch. I’ll only add that the New School For Social Research where she teaches is a Fabian Socialist inspired school. It was founded in 1919 when the Fabian Society was busy spreading it’s ideology across the country. Founded by, among others, John Dewey, who was a very important Fabian Socialist. Another founder and the school’s first director, James Harvey Robinson, was a Fabian as well. Thorstein Veblen was another founder and Fabian Socialist. In fact, Stuart Chase said his thoughts were shaped by Veblen. Even Charles Beard, another founder, went to England in 1899 for graduate studies at Oxford University, a hot bed of Fabian Socialist thinking at the time. Their tentacles are everywhere.
Instead of killing our pets – lets make pet food out of politicians.
I’d like mine with a gravy made from these “educated” elites
Mmm soylent green.
Careful, our pets may become possessed by the demons that possess our politicians
My natural gas bill this month was right at 3 times as much as the end of March last year, and we used exactally the same amount of gas.
Next winter is gonna be rough when it gets to 20 below up here.
I recommend you get a woodstove if possible. If you need to be frugal look on used sites if you can afford new there’s a 27% federal rebate right now. Don’t wait for the winter. Plus you can cook on it.
You can melt snow and ice on it for water, too.
Winter is easy w/ a wood stove.
Problem is, if you live in a city, you may not be able to use one.
In Ca builders can no longer put wood burning fireplaces in houses, only decorative gas ones (let alone wood stoves/ but I already have mine) BUT per the CA green policies, in a year or so, ALL new homes must be all electric. I wonder where they plan to get all this new electricity from as they are now removing four dams which not only provide water storage (no wonder there is now constant drought conditions here) but clean hydroelectric power! Talk about stupid, stupid politicians and so call ecologists.
Put a sweater on? Seriously though, get German house shoes, which are boiled wool slippers with cork soles. I wear them because of a bad knee but they’re warm. Also, long underwear, dressing in layers generally, wool socks, flannel sheets, down comforters, hot water bottles; don’t you remember reading in books about prairie children who had a hot brick put in bed with them?.
If you have unused bedrooms turn off the heat exchange and close the door; I know that people don’t always have unused space that can be closed off, but it’s a thought. Cooking things in the oven always warms things up; when I was a kid and whined that it was cold, especially when it was 20 below, mom would tell me to bake something. Baking bread or cooking dinner in the oven are both things that warm the house.
Some of the unwashed are joining organized crime rings in New York and California. Wonder what she thinks about that.
People like this will be the first to starve.
When the great cleansing happens, or what the French called “The Terror”, I can’t wait to see her astonished
mug looking back at me thru the barbed wire.
guess she missed the class where The Republic was discussed…or maybe she knows who guards the guardians. Spit.
As a house painter I don’t understand how I’m supposed to carry ladders and all my tools to these jobs riding an electric bus.
You’ll figure it out, Patrick.
(JK)
I hear bug eating is making a big comeback
This she says to the very people who grow, ship, and prepare the the food SHE EATS!
These are the very people whom will be preyed upon should sheite go sideways and they’re stoking it up early. Fools.
bverwey
NYT Opinion weighs in on inflation:
The comments to her opinion post are brutal.
They’re hysterical/very good.
Only a very few #DemDummies in the comments on this twit.
I believe the future is a world where the people this witch says eat lentils and do away with your animals, will in time have no other choice but to de-elite the world. And all this nuclear war talk, my opinion (do it or shut-up). I have heard about nuclear war the effects the after math and all that my whole life and I was born when the cold war was just getting rolling.
God willing, he is getting as feed-up with this mess as I am. That one last saved soul is what i’m waiting for, and that could be getting close!
After coming to the US from England I lived for five dreadful years in Manhattan. People like Theresa Ghilarducci were all too common. They were pushy, rude and obnoxious in so many ways. My girlfriend was from the south, she went to the new school. They treated her as though she was some kind of a cross between an ignorant country bumpkin and a Nazi. Remember the southerners had slaves, oh dear me! I have NEVER in my life met so many provincial ass-wipes in one place. They were truly stuck on themselves and basked in their self importance. $300K by the way will not go very far in Manhattan as the cost of living there is enormous. Check the rents there and see for yourself.
In Australia we had officials that told us variously that “this is the recession we had to have” and “life wasn’t meant to be easy.” Even though they came from opposite sides of the aisle it was obviously a uniparty even 40 years ago.
How about don’t build their houses or repair them when they’re damaged?
ouchie
Since the snob-set no longer feel the need to filter their elitism, it only seems fair we should dispense with our own filters and begin asking such questions as elite compared to what? Can you swing a hammer? Can you produce food or fiber? What are your practical skills? Who’s your daddy when the power goes out? And if it stays out…? Where do you live? Got guns?
Yes, things can get really real when the filters go off, and there are a lot of people of the elite persuasion for whom such a series of questions would be very poorly received.
So that’s a pretty good indication they’re good questions to ask.
They have a lot farther to fall than the little guy.
When I was in high school (80’s) we had an English teacher like this. She would go on stupid rants everyday about whatever was going through her liberal pea brain. One day she went on and on about car mechanics. How they were (her words, not mine) “smelly, dirty and morons”. Somebody commented that what mechanics did was difficult work. Her reply was to state that intellectual work like she was doing was much harder and that she was soooo much smarter than them.
I then made the comment “Oh yeah, when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere and YOU don’t know how to fix it, whose smarter then?” She started ranting and raving and had drool and snot coming out of her nose. I should have went and found her car and switched the spark plug wires around.
I think I’ve met that woman. lol
I’ll add, the working class should close their FB, twitter accounts, shop locally, avoid amazon, cut back on expensive cable TV plans, donate to local charities vs NGO types.
This is the same attitude displayed by Nancy with her “luncheon”. They hate all of us and don’t like the fact that we can have some nice things in life too. Those luxuries are only for them, and if we attain anything desirable it diminishes what they have.
They are in process of trying to bankrupt us and the country and not afraid to shove it in our faces. I have some news for Ms. Ghilarducci, everything on this earth belongs to GOD, not them. Also the look down one’s nose at others less fortunate doesn’t have a set point of 300K per year it keeps moving up. Soon it will be if you don’t make 600K per year, eat your lentils and shut up!
Just weeks back we saw pictures of the L.A. trains being looted for FED-EX / UPS packages.
Soon they will expand operations I’m guessing.
The article lists the author’s email. I wonder what sort of messages she might read?
What is it that Theresa actually produces? What tangible effect does she make to society?
People like her would rather die than do any meaningful work. When the dollar collapses, maybe she will have an opportunity to truly make that choice.
The woman’s brain will never emit empathy, humanity, or common sense. At my local store, bulk oat groats (which I love) now go for $2.00 per pound—a thirty percent increase over the earlier price. Even at that price, however, the bulk purchase offers a great meal cheaper than the processed oats one might by elsewhere. Refusing to pay the price increase, however, I found an alternative: I now buy oats groats in 50 pound bags. My last price hit 76 cents per pound. The oats store at room temperature. I long for the day when people like that woman reap the retribution they well deserve because I know most of them will not cope well with their new situation in life. Even better, I’d love to see her face as she stands on the inmate side of the barbed wire waiting for her watery, cabbage soup ration. I know. I worked around Manhattan and D.C. types for 30 years. 17 years ago, I said screw it and quit cold turkey. I would never go back.
What Ms. Ghilarducci doesn’t realize is that those of us in flyover land will always be able to provide food for ourselves and our families. We just won’t have the excess capacity to feed HER and her ilk. Just 2 weeks ago, we butchered 2 hogs and a heifer ourselves. We have another beef going to the butcher in April and a third in May. This will provide for hubby and I, his folks, my folks, our 2 adult children and his sister and her family for the next year. I also have 50 chickens and 13 turkeys. 5 apple trees, 2 plum, 3 pear, 1 peach, & 1 nectarine. A huge garden area and seed stockpile. Grape vines. 110 mama cows and natural gas wells to power our ranch. We’ll be just fine. It will be HER who is eating lentils if she can find them.
History teaches us that the oppressors are usually killed before peoples pets.
Teresa Ghilarducci is the woman who suggested that Congress should seize all privately held retirement funds and incorporate them into Social Security. Keep that in mind when reading her bilge.
Another idea is to buy essential gift cards.. to the gas station,
grocery store, pet food store, while you have some extra money.
Gift cards are no longer suppose to expire so hold on to them
when you have some lean money times you will have
the gift cards for your gas, groceries and pet food..
echoing several other posters, i support this idea, just not sure about the execution….
although, as john madden (RIP) would say “in principle, i’m for it”.
persons to do shopping, coffee, pool cleaning, cooking, laundry, and all manner of domestic tasks are supplied to the uber rich by “employment agencies” specializing in labor imported directly from costa rica, puerto rico, guatemala, honduras, and other “acceptable” third world countries.
dry cleaning, union jobs, trash pick up, plumbing, electrical, auto maintenance, tailoring, private pilots, and skilled labor positions are definitely areas that could be squeezed – but as long as there are people in those fields that need to feed their families, probably not going to affect the elites (not blaming the plumbers, electricians, etc.)
in fact, anybody looking to make a buck is going to gravitate to the super rich, which drives down the price of labor for those positions.
they need our services, skills, and know how; we need their inflated dollars to pay their inflated prices for their inflated goods.
the stock market could tank, but “friends of friends” would likely pump enough money in to keep it afloat, unlike the crash of ’29.
the elites have insulated themselves from everyday concerns quite well.
short of a natural disaster or a septic system back up,
don’t see them being affected at all.
i guess it is what it is.
People like her will be the first ones to have all their possessions looted and burned down.
I dont have any kids but, I do have 4 youngins, they are my dogs. I would like to tell the bloomberg writer that I value my dogs more than I do him. If the writer were starving to death and my dogs were starving to death, I would let the writer die and then feed them to my dogs.
And some are buying cat food to try and get by. Joe Biden’s America.
just some bio notes. specializes in labor economics and gets paid by the workers for it. too bad she has no empathy for them, only socialist proposals.
She obtained a B.A. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley in 1978.[5][12] She graduated from there in 1984 with a Ph.D. in Economics
Ghilarducci is the Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. While a student at UC Berkeley from 1979 to 1983, Ghilarducci was a research assistant at its Institute of Industrial Relations (now its Institute for Research on Labor and Employment)
She serves as a public trustee for the health care VEBAs for United Auto Workers retirees of General Motors, Ford Motor Company and Chrysler, and United Steelworkers retirees of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. (all prior wiki)
Net Worth in 2021 $1 Million – $5 Million (https://networthmask.com/teresa-ghilarducci/)
The Schwartz Professor of Economics……..Wasn’t she in the movie Spaceballs? May the Schwartz be with you.
Pardon my French, but #FJB and the horse he rode in on.
On a farm or ranch, dogs are essential. They ward off predators, rescue lost sheep, herd, protect their owners, etc.
Cats are also essential as they make good mousers for the barns.
My dogs eat beef and chicken whenever I can give it to them. They are worth their weight in gold.
I am grateful that I can now raise my own meat and crops, so I can ignore these idiots.
The best idea is to get into a farming/ranching community as soon as you can and be a part of that parallel society.
If nothing else, seek out local ranchers and farmers and buy direct.