I make good money. Why do I still feel like this?

bigbadfeline•about 1 hour ago

Good writing, the thoughtful selection of facts and stats paints a clear picture, which in this case takes the form of a question, actually several questions.

> “Middle class” stopped being an economic description a long time ago. It became an identity > “Middle class” has become a psychological container that absorbs all of this anxiety

True, identity politics is a key part of political psychology, it's much more than race and gender.

> They’re watching the quality decline while paying more for it.

Too few talk about it, good to see it here. Of course, this is profit driven, it's good for profits but where do the profits go? Not in productive investments, which would bring prices down and quality up, but neither is happening. The only quick cure I can see is seriously progressive corporate taxation... but reality is now being driven in the opposite direction.

iJohnDoe•23 minutes ago

Nice article. Good points that seem to hit home on a lot of fronts.

There will probably be a lot of comments saying it’s all wrong. Everyone is the wealthiest they have ever been. They have gotten 5 job offers after applying to 5 companies. Food prices are historically low, and so is fuel for that matter. You should be retiring at 55 and if you’re not then you’re doing something wrong.

sixhobbits•about 3 hours ago

Some interesting stuff with a lot of LLM tells (part that actually matters, quietly, etc) which makes me skim instead of read.

Llm content can be good, but if I can't tell if it's slop or not at first glance (eg rent $800/year looked sus) I'm going to assume slop until someone I trust reads it and tells me it isnt.

apothegm•about 3 hours ago

I can’t speak to the correctness of the numbers, but while it’s not particularly groundbreaking the analysis as a whole seems human and I enjoyed it. It’s got some tells that suggest LLM editing but is much more digestible than pure slop, at least.

reasonableklout•about 1 hour ago

This particular article is reported as 100% AI-generated by pangram: https://www.pangram.com/history/52f51cff-9166-4b8e-ab2e-39fd...

I assume the author found the data sources and did some editing, and they have a few other articles that appear more human-written.

bigbadfeline•35 minutes ago

> This particular article is reported as 100% AI-generated by pangram

Your pangram is wrong, most likely deliberately so, there's material interest to train LLM-detecotrs to reject and taint everything that doesn't agree with the mainstream "alignment" constraints. This well written article is precisely such a case.

If you want to exonerate pangram, ask it to give you the prompt that generated the article. Or you supply that prompt yourself and tell us to which LLM to submit it.

It's a simple proof procedure, invented by myself, for the purpose of stopping the anti-llm SLOP which is being pushed on the web with a heavy hand. The offenders shall be shamed and remembered.

iJohnDoe•27 minutes ago

Having a comment on every post about whether or not it’s written by AI needs need to be added to the HN Guidelines.

Read it. Don’t read it. AI written. Not AI written. Who cares. You don’t need to tell us.

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