US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

Post by BeetleB » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC

0xy wrote: post #554

bosch_mind wrote: post #145

I grew up in the US and lived there for 30 years, but now I live in Europe. Every single one of my friends in their 30's finds visiting the US absolutely terrifying (even those who have previously been). I have yet to meet a single friend in today's day that has expressed any interest in visiting.

A Senior Software Engineer in Stockholm can expect to make less money than a Graduate Software Engineer in the United States, and will pay more taxes. It's simple, as a technologist, you live in Europe if retirement isn't important for you. Because you'll have almost nothing to show for it after 30 years in tech in Europe.

Post by ActorNightly » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

jandrewrogers wrote: post #366

cloverich wrote: post #295

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Which policies specifically? Certainly not the income tax on million+ income, seems pretty modest. We moved from TX. Property tax rate is low, no income tax sub million in income, schools are great (and almost all new), roads are fine and transit seeing massive investment. They definitely need to fix budget, but there's _ample_ wealth here to deal with it. I think they'll figure it out. _Oregon_ has bad policies (10%…

You can add in the increasing B&O (revenue) taxes, payroll taxes, data center taxes, and the expansion of the extremely high sales taxes to things that effectively make Washington uncompetitive. The cost of doing business has become unreasonably high and is so badly structured that it creates perverse incentives for how you organize business. And then you have a litany of new business regulation across every sector o…

Post by BeetleB » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #518

blurbleblurble wrote: post #494

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Your head's in the sand. Where I live we have bounty hunters kidnapping people into unmarked vans. For six months or more now. Would visitors likely be safe? Sure, but not necessarily and I can't blame people for being cautious and there's so much unpredictability around it, even for those of us who are familiar.

> I can't blame people for being cautious and there's so much unpredictability around it I can. Again, this is like refusing to visit CDMX because you heard about gang violence or avoiding Sicily because there is crime. Those singular events aren’t false. But they don’t make up the majority of the context. Someone refusing to travel because of these low-probability events (note: because of fear of them, not out of pr…

Post by kyoji » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

baq wrote: post #50

ChoGGi wrote: post #5

Unexpectedly, if you've been in a coma for the past year. Let's raise tariffs again.

tariffs on goods are mostly noise. if there were tariffs on services, though...

Post by ActorNightly » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

sailfast wrote: post #53

“Unexpectedly” lol We’ve been digging ourselves a giant AI-inflated hole in the economy for months and folks have just been playing musical chairs to grab as much money as possible before the music stops. Hard to believe it’s taken this long. I never wanted to live through the late 70s / early 80s economically but I guess I’ll have my chance!