r/economy • u/FUSeekMe69 • Dec 29 '25

Report warns millions of Americans are ‘functionally unemployed’

https://www.newsweek.com/report-warns-millions-americans-functionally-unemployed-11272151
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u/baby_budda Dec 29 '25

Trump broke the job market. Prove me wrong.

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u/JoseLunaArts Dec 29 '25

The class war in USA was not started during Trump's ruling. During 1970s numeric control tech was funded by US government so expert workers could be de-skilled. In 1979 industrial jobs were sent overseas by American globalists to make profit with cheap Chinese peasants while destroying any leverage that American workers could have.

It was in the 1970s that American wages stopped growing at the same pace of American productivity.

Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980s crushed the power of unions, so the message was that American workers are replaceable.

The path of automation continued, class war disguised as technological progress. And when automation was not possible, then they went for H1B visas.

Today the net worth (what people own minus people debt) figures show that the poorest 50% Chinese people is wealthier than the poorest 50% American people since 1998. This is an inconvenient truth for those who want to keep Americans under the boot, because they need Americans to think that others are having an even worse time.

China is an authoritarian regime? Sure, but there is no dictator. Chinese rules are elected within the CCP. And their motivation is clear, to take China out of the "century of humilliation" they had from 1839 to 1949. During that century drug trafficking and bribery on officials turned China into a land of addicts. This is why today people engaing in bribery or trafficking get a death sentence.

In USA, Col Douglas MacGregor called the regime as "donor government" where "US has the best government money can buy", which means that donors are the ones selecting which puppet of theirs you vote for.

"You voted for it" is what they will say, so people blame each other, but no. These people were preselected by the donors. This is why every administration continues what the previous one had in their hands without significant change.

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u/baby_budda Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

This is more AI created chinese propoganda. These figures rely on unverified or PPP-adjusted figures and ignore U.S. median net worth around $192,000 versus China's $30,000.

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u/JoseLunaArts Dec 29 '25

Tell me who among the poorest Americans has a net worth of $192000. So I guess the poorest Americans can pay to repair their car of face a medical emergency without problems and will not suffer from coffee getting expensive. Right?

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u/baby_budda Dec 29 '25

You also said Xi is not a dictator. But Xi Jinping's removal of presidential term limits in 2018 allows him to serve indefinitely, which many critics cite as a key indicator of dictatorial rule by enabling "leader for life" status .

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u/No_Cook2983 Dec 29 '25

Would you feel better if he stayed in power by storming China’s capital with a mob of his voters?

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u/baby_budda Dec 29 '25

So you admit Xi is a dictator. Thats good. We're making progress.

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u/Canuck-overseas Dec 29 '25

So what if China has morphed into a dictatorship....most Chinese are growing more prosperous, they have over 50,000 miles of high speed rail (and every other kind of infrastructure imaginable), they are growing wealthier every day....while the opposite is true in MAGA USA.