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This is a wrong leaning.
The chart is technically correct — but misleading.
GDP per capita ≠ income.
It ignores cost of living, inequality, and social safety nets.
Mississippi isn’t “richer” than Germany in any meaningful way.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/11493…

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL that America's poorest state (Mississippi) has a higher GDP per capita than UK, France, and Italy https://themarketear.com/posts/cgERhgr0OS/image/0 #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1mc38r3/til_that_americas_poorest_state_mississippi_has_a/

Constituents in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District showered Representative Ashley Hinson with
boos and jeers for supporting Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill.
The Republican lawmaker was excoriated during a town hall Wednesday in Worth County,
where Iowans urged Hinson to
“stop lying” after she baselessly claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living.
“Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “F…

“Stop Lying”: Voters Erupt at GOP Lawmaker’s Shocking Claim on Economy
Iowa State Representative Ashley Hinson’s comments were met with boos and jeers.

🪧 Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll
#inflation

After two decades in Congress,
Darrell Issa’s career is all about serving the ultra-wealthy like himself
– and serving Donald Trump. It’s time to send him packing and take our country back. 
On the City Council,
Marni von Wilpert
flipped San Diego’s reddest seat blue.
Now, she’s ready to do it again – in Congress.
https://www.

Marni von Wilpert for Congress
Marni von Wilpert is running for Congress to tackle the skyrocketing cost of living, protect reproductive freedom, defend LGBTQ rights, and make Washington work for working families — not just the wealthy few. With a proven record of service, results, and winning tough races, Marni is the battle-tested fighter we need to flip CA-48 and finally send Darrell Issa packing.

15.4% #chocolate inflation! Terrible!
The more subtle thing is how white chocolate stuff is getting more common and dark rarer; I think that's actually due to the cost - that was noticable in dark chocolate easter eggs and bunnies being rarer this year, and I bet the same will be too of reindeers.

UK inflation remains at 3.8% but food prices continue to surge
While UK inflation held steady in August, the pace of price rises for food surged, increasing cost of living pressures.

This map of Europe showing housing cost, Copenhagen region just pops out compared to rest of Denmark... 😕
https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/living-at-great-cost

Trump to blame for high cost of living, Americans say in new poll | US economy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/trump-inflation-cost-of-living-poll

And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing #nutrition

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing
Climate change is pushing up the prices of the food that we buy and therefore changing what we eat. One-third of UK food price increases in 2023 resulted from climate change, according to research by agricultural economists. This extra cost contributed to food price inflation and the UK's cost-of-living crisis.

From Movement YVR
Cars expensive! Transit cheap!A new study finds that high transportation costs are driven largely by owning vehicles and people who live by rapid transit have a lower cost of living. We're absolutely shocked! (Just kidding, we aren't surprised at all.)The Metro Vancouver Housing and Transportation Cost Burden Study
Update just dropped, check it out here:

On the Bay Area regional transit measure: "A gross receipts tax [rather than sales tax] would ensure that the largest and wealthiest companies contribute their fair share to the infrastructure that helps make their record profits possible. This approach avoids placing an additional burden on families already struggling with the crushing cost of living in the Bay Area." #SB63
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Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

Important, informative thread re farmworker pay.
#agriculture

eggs were 27¢ a dozen in 1905 when the presque isle lighthouse keeper's house was built

Fascinating:
A feature in the Financial Times reveals some very rich people have started selling up and living in motorhomes.
Obviously, they’re ultra-luxurious motorhomes. The owner of a private equity firm interviewed has a 30-tonne behemoth with air conditioning and high-speed internet, a kitchen, dining room, two bathrooms, a “spacious master bedroom” and “a range of modern hi-tech appliances”. which cost
“around $2.7m” (£2m)
I read something else about ultra-high…

With all the books unpacked, I finally got to read through Kirsty Mackay's "The Magic Money Tree" about the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and poverty in the UK, and loved the prints that came with it.
As always, she does a great job in combining documentary photography, scrapbooking and relevant texts (e.g. from parliamentary debates). Well worth your time if you can get your hands on it!
#documentaryphotography

📈 Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many
The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ everyday lives.