> Food, housing, energy, healthcare, education. Real wage growth and job security measured against the prices and durations of those things. That’s what matters to people who don’t own significant real assets, those are the things that can get extremely bad (someone tries to murder the CEO of United Healthcare on the street bad) without showing up in the numbers you see in the press.

You're correct that they do matter and can get bad, but are not bad currently as regularly reported in the press.

Lower income households in the US did better than everyone else by these metrics coming out of COVID.