Where are you getting to 10th percentile figure from, my understanding was the COVID benefits were more wide-reaching (e.g. stimulus cheques)

And "economy as a whole" is much more abstract

Surely this is a better measure of people's actual material circumstances though?

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

This is a bit glass houses given you write for The Atlantic

This is good. Reminds me of my favorite alignment chart, from here:
www.reddit.com/r/AlignmentC...