> - We're in a recession (at least if you aren't upper middle class or above)
I'm sorry, what recession?
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/workers-paychecks-a...
> In the year ending in November, real wages grew by about 0.8 percent for all workers and 1.1 percent for the 80% of workers who are production and non-supervisory workers. Further, wage inequality fell. The ratio of wages at the 90th percentile compared to the 10th percentile fell by nearly 6 percent over the year.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2023/12/19/...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strong-wage-growth-gave-ameri...