Affordability has more baked into it than simply real wage growth. Its real and perceived quality of goods and ease of daily life. The constant comparison to others who “have” more anchors our sense of success. One of the many ways social media and reality TV have warped our minds.

Here's a note I sent to our members about what we did with their money, and why we expect the Onion to outgrow the Washington Post.

We keep doing weird, hard shit — taunting ICE, yelling at Congress for not taunting ICE, buying bad websites — when nobody else does.

Our members keep getting papers.