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Originally Posted by rubecube
Really? You can't see why someone might think the below sounds privileged?
It has nothing to do with you disagreeing with me. It's your general attitude/outlook that rubs me the wrong way when you post something like that. It comes across as tremendously out of touch and insensitive.
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Regardless of how it makes you feel, it’s absolutely true. Most people with secure white-collar jobs are doing better financially from all of this. Savings rates have shot up. Home renos are booming. It might be unseemly to openly talk about, but it’s a reality that those in charge of our public finances have to recognize.
When we’ve moved on from the pandemic as health crisis to the pandemic as economic and financial crisis, the extremely uneven distribution of who took the hit from all this has the makings of a political firestorm. Sending billions of government dollars to people who will use it to put in marble countertops and pad out their pension plans won’t be a good look.