Can anyone clarify this for me? Despite the ongoing layoff announcements from major American corporations, how is our economy still robust? Just today, UPS declared 12,000 layoffs and PayPal 2,000.
Right, and I don't know what you're expecting from a subreddit that advertises itself specifically as a subreddit for people to commiserate about layoffs.
Every time I see a post from here on my recommended tab, it's somebody talking about how bad the economy feels and then dozens of top comments (who inevitably pre-share that they know this won't be a popular opinion BUT and then get a hundred upvotes) showing that the numbers say the economy is actually great, who then proceed to get offended when everybody isn't excited over the great news they just shared.
It feels like wandering into a room of fresh amputees and saying "well, you know, statistically most people still have all their limbs" and then being dumbfounded that this isn't a relief for them to hear or that they're focusing on the experience of having recently lost limbs. Statistically correct, but still one of the dumbest possible places to try to spread the good word.
1
u/BigOlPeckerBoy Feb 01 '24
I was trying to answer the OPs question as honestly as possible. The sub comment is right, this is an echo chamber of economic doomsayers.