Give it a rest... again!

[Workingman]

It is now being reported that wages have dropped more than inflation... the worst on record! FFS! Please stop all the doom mongering.

Records only go back 20 years, These reporters should have lived in the late 60s, 70s, 80s and early 90s - before records began.

Wages are always behind inflation, and always have been. Eventually they rise slowly, but incrementally, to catch up - it takes years. It was once known as 'boom and bust' and it is happening again.

Like it or not we have to live with it and cut our cloth accordingly and live within our means.

Cut out the subscription services, takeaways, mobile contracts etc. credit card purchases for this, that and the other 'must have now' tat, and live with what you have. Learn to cook and wear clothes.

[cromwell]

This week the Daily Mail reported that the storms that we were going to have (which haven't materialized here) were going to lead to an outbreak of "thunder fever".
It's ridiculous.
Someone somewhere wants us all to live in a permanent state of fearfulness, because scared people are easier to manipulate.
Imo.

[cruiser2]

JUst watched the news when they were interveiwing the Rail Union leader. He wants a pay rise above the rate of inflation for his members.
No mention the effect is havingon other workers such as nurses.
And pensioners cannot go on strike. We have to wait for the government to agree an increase.

[Suff]

The most. Wonderful thing about the Internet is that it is the largest library of factual information in modern human history.

Get a scare story about solar storms, you can go to a monitoring site and see what is really going on. Get a howling article about storms? You can look up any number of weather sites with 10 day predictions for your area showing how many cm of rain is likely to fall and the probability %.

See a bunch of BS about wages "falling" without the "in real terms" attached and you can go and find the true numbers. If you want.

I'm not interested in them any more. The truth is there to find for anyone who wants to look.

Once upon a time the only outlet for news was in print. Those who printed it were aware of the huge responsibility they bore to society to print the truth. This flowed into radio but by the time TV came along it had started to degrade.

No need to say "give it a rest". Much better to switch off, stop buying newspapers and go find the reality of the world online.

Kids, today, are well aware of the reality of the news situation so the press and MSM have to become more and more strident in an attempt to stay relevant. Well aware that 25 years from now those pimply youths will be their core market and they won't be buying press or MSM.

They can say what they want. We have choices. Believe them, ignore them or fact check them.

I prefer to ignore them.

[Workingman]

Unfortunately, Suff, there is a need to "give it a rest" because most people are not like us. We are a tiny minority.

The vast majority (old and young) go all Homer Simpson wobbly at the click-bait headlines, then they run off to social media where they find Janine telling Tristram that....'it's the highest for 40 years! That's my whole life from before I was born....!' and so, on it goes.

Yes, there are other outlets but for the kids their info comes from their echo chambers.

The Internet might be the largest library, but it is also the biggest, massivest, collection of fact-free gossip columns, and they are where most of the traffic is.

[Suff]

The Internet might be the largest library, but it is also the biggest, massivest, collection of fact-free gossip columns, and they are where most of the traffic is.

Yes we're unusual in that too, we don't go there.