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		not_a_cop75 on Oct 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer,... "Good news! We’re getting more while using less." Or maybe we just haven't accounted for inflation and the rampant advent of landlords and landlord-like start ups which consumes greater and greater slices of the consumer's money.

Gibbon1 on Oct 9, 2019 [–]

Yes. I think the financialization of the economy means you can't compare numbers over time.

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