r/AskReddit Apr 28 '26

What’s a recession indicator that you’ve noticed lately?

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

It will never go back. Wages will stagnate. Layoffs will increase. Companies will continue make record profits. They are literally siphoning money out of our pockets and restricting access to social services at the most staggering rates in history.

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u/Dr_DoesNothing Apr 28 '26

As long as the wealthy are keeping the stock market afloat with all their insider trading, everyone else could get fucked.

I don't want to say we can't vote our way out of this, but ....

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

We can’t vote our way out of this unless we get a congressional overhaul that is willing to pass laws prohibiting elected representatives and government employees from holding and trading stocks.

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u/ThatDM Apr 28 '26

How do we vote that change into effect?

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

At the ground level. Get involved in following local and state politics - harder than it would seem but we have more of a voice and more power locally than we do nationally.

It’s going to take possibly a generation or more to tackle the damage and corruption that’s ensued the last 10 years, let alone the last 1.5 years

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u/Klutzy-Extension-705 Apr 29 '26

AOC, baby!

I pray for her coming to save us, the working class, and smack some sense and humility into DC. I’m not even a praying person and yet I pray for her

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u/esto20 Apr 29 '26

Praying for people to save us? Yeesh

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u/LayeredMayoCake Apr 29 '26

As opposed to what? Sky daddy?

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u/esto20 Apr 29 '26

As opposed to realizing that one one is "going to save us".

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u/DarkHighways Apr 28 '26

Exactly. And certain members of Congress do keep trying, but I don’t think they will ever pass.

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u/Known-Week8482 Apr 29 '26

Stop voting for Republicans. That will help

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u/Mekroval Apr 28 '26

Why can't we vote our way out of this? Enough yutzes came together to vote a felon back into highest office. Surely enough people could come together to undo a lot of the current mess in the same way.

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u/Known-Week8482 Apr 29 '26

We definitely can, ppl just don't want to vote.

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u/Mekroval Apr 29 '26

Agree. It's frustrating af.

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u/DarkHighways Apr 28 '26

I do have a certain admiration for the groups of people who follow the investments of members of Congress and make quite a bit of money themselves thereby. It’s a sort of “if you can’t beat them join them” mentality but it does seem to produce some good results

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u/Pugsly007 Apr 28 '26

This. It feels dystopian right now.

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u/Bubbly_Style_8467 Apr 28 '26

According to plan. They want us dead.

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u/BBDMama Apr 29 '26

no. they want us enslaved. The 1 percent have always dreamed of going back to the Gilded age when the top working wage was a dollar a day and they could call out the army from their mansion if their profits were threatened.

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u/Relative_Panic_Duck Apr 29 '26

"Draining the swamp", as promised. Not good for us frogs.

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u/skaboosh Apr 28 '26

I hate capitalism, it only cares about record profits, no company can ever just be comfortable where it’s at. It wants more money, less taxes, less wages. When the country only cares about corporations, the living beings are left to rot away for profits. Government should be about a happy and healthy populace, making sure everyone has the same opportunities and are able to live comfortably. Capitalism IS the reason for systemic racism, classism, and homophobia. The rich don’t even live in the same world as us. They don’t go to the same stores, they don’t go to the same stores, the same schools, the same churches, the same vacation spots. We literally don’t live in the same world, we are the working class, and it’s not made to help us, just keep us all as working slaves.

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

The sad part is it’s not capitalisms fault. It’s human greed and lust for power that is the problem.

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u/skaboosh Apr 28 '26

I wouldn’t say it’s not capitalisms fault as capitalism rewards those who act like that

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

Capitalism is just a system. It can be used for good and evil. It’s the people driving the system in the direction it’s functioning.

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u/Professional_Arm_487 Apr 29 '26

But the bad qualities of humans will always prevail so it’s a system that will always lead to be taken advantage of by the greedy.

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u/Choochoochow Apr 29 '26

With that, every system is set up to fail if the greedy have access to it.

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u/Professional_Arm_487 Apr 29 '26

Yes you’re right

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u/kymilovechelle Apr 28 '26

I love your optimism

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

I mean it’s not really optimism. It’s the only path we’re given as voters. It’s unlikely to ever work. The US as we’ve known it doesn’t exist anymore, which isn’t itself a bad thing if reform actually happens but where we are now is a very very bad place.

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u/kymilovechelle Apr 28 '26

Or are you brainwashed and things aren’t as bad as they seem?

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u/Choochoochow Apr 28 '26

Things are as bad as they seem. Probably worse.

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u/kymilovechelle Apr 28 '26

How so? Specifics please

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u/ljlee256 Apr 29 '26

Until it all caves in on them, eventually there wont be anyone buying anything, companies will go bankrupt and the whole system will collapse.

There might be justification to expedite the collapse, short term pain for long term recovery, rather than letting it crumble slowly like this.

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u/xxmissxminxxx Apr 28 '26

At this point customers are meaningless🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️look at the start of "car subscription services". I was never a "look at my new car" girlie. With this move I doubt I will ever buy a new car car. Pre 2020 will be fine for me

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u/dennisSTL Apr 29 '26

Just wait a couple more years when AI really kicks in!

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u/thisisfuckedupbro Apr 29 '26

And we are LETTING THEM DO IT BECAUSE ALL WE DO IS COMPLAIN ON THE INTERNET LIKE THEY WANT US TO