Do you care about your life? Serious serious stuff

And what makes you think you know any more about how to live life than I do?

You are egotistical and you need to get over yourself, just the fact that you feel the need to "guide" connotes that you are better at thinking than everyone else. Why else would you feel the need to do something as ambiguous as "guide". Who are you guiding may I ask? No one, because the fact of the matter is that you are nothing more than a string of opinions and supposed predictions.
 
hahaha boulder could be the only school whos local magazine has a one page column advertising for this weeks "top headies" or some sort of fashion like that, where it discuss' the pros and cons of that weed, i love it

but yeah - our nation is turning to shit, and no obama can give us "all the change we need", just cause someone can talk well doesnt mean our economic crisis is cured, but yes he will probably help
 
I'm not going to get into a huge argument with you about your post. This quote, however, is very wrong. Notice I said REAL wages. Real wage is equal to the nominal wage (what you are talking about) over the price level of the time, or W/P. This puts the wage workers get into real terms. So, you are wrong. REAL wages have increased, and it has nothing to do with inflation. Inflation is nominal.
 
people need to stop preaching like this. Especially using a source that is in my opinion, less credible than the onion because the onion at least takes real facts and twists them to make fun of the subject.

And say what you want, but we don't need a revolution, we don't need any major changes. People are overreacting. This is the world...shit changes, it always has an always will. So we're hitting a rough patch right now, we don't need to overthrow governments or anything like that. I don't mind that my life might not be 100% what i want it to be because the world will have changed by then. But of course, it could change back and we could all end up super rich.

And i dunno about this whole "real love and peace" concept, because it would never work on a wide scale. If you ran a government like that, one day you'd open your eyes and realize 1/2 your country left a few years ago, and the other half is occupied by an army that just kind of slowly moved in.
 
Ya, but GDP growth accounts for real change in prices and wages (Chain Price Index does not). I understand it's nominal, but some economists use GDP growth as an indicator for what they deem inflation. Silly argument anyway....whatever.
 
This is not true. In fact, the Ego, Fear, Hate and Greeg are probably the reason the media exist.
 
I've only read half of this thread so far, I'll get to the rest later--

but to the thread poster...no hate, being totally honest here... you sound like you dropped E a couple of days ago and now your on that semi-high emotional roller coaster of thoughtful depression where your serotonin levels are all messed up...if you haven't done drugs recently, then you may just be depressed.
 
I agree with what Salcedo said earlier about you being self righteous and egotistical. You're not exactly the first person to think of these things.
 
Although the statement you quoted was a bit vague, what you said isn't entirely true either. Sure, I'll give you that, since the 1800's wages have risen overall, but more recently than the past 200 years, wages have not been increased fast enough to keep up with inflation. Wages have declined since it's peak in the early 70's. Also a recent development is that real wages are not increasing fast enough to keep up with overall productivity, which usually rise together, be it fast or slow. Real wages have increased since the 1800's but have decreased in the past 30 years, partly due to the faster rise in inflation than wage increases. Even if wages were to be increasing fast enough, there are many more expenses that eliminate the majority the wage increases. Now we have to pay for cars, gas, heating, water, medal insurance, car insurance, house insurance, increased taxes, electricity and many other things that make wage increases irrelevant, or at least bare minimum.

This is an interesting statement from the NY Times article "Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity"

"Average family income, adjusted for inflation, has continued to advance

at a good clip, a fact Mr. Bush has cited when speaking about the

economy. But these gains are a result mainly of increases at the top of

the income spectrum that pull up the overall numbers. Even for workers

at the 90th percentile of earners — making about $80,000 a year —

inflation has outpaced their pay increases over the last three years,

according to the Labor Department."
 
Out of the three people that disagree with me concerning inflation, how many of you hold an economics degree, are economics majors, or have even taken an intro class?

I only want to know so when I explain when finals are over I know how much to put into the explanation.
 
I agree^
you're too preachy, we all know the world is in the shitter, just try to make the biggest difference you can, while loving life. Oh, and shredd whenever possible
 
I'm an econ major, but I say why bother waste your time. If they're too stupid to know the difference between nominal and real, while still trying to look like they know what they're talking about in terms of US and world economics then their opinion is already irrelevant.
 
i fit 2 out of the 3

anywho i think we're saying different things, or were taught differently. i wouldn't bother quoting you if i wasn't sure of what i was saying. don't bother with a lengthy unless it really makes you feel better.

...and i know the difference between real and nominal, and i'm pretty sure my opinion is relevant...don't be an asshole. (not you, the other guy)
 
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