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JohnnyFnCliche t1_j95hvdn wrote

A decline in cardboard box sales to companies after record highs in 2020 and 2021 during the pandemic when everyone went nuts buying things online while stuck at home seems logical to me and not a valid indicator of a recession...it's a valid indicator that we're no longer stuck at home during a pandemic...

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Bethany2748 t1_j96sqs2 wrote

Most items are shipped and transported via cardboard . It’s not just an indicator of residential activity.

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JohnnyFnCliche t1_j96vzo9 wrote

But if they're measuring against 2 years that aren't normally sustainable, then they have flawed data...that's like Twitch streamers complaining that the platform's average viewer count is massively down now that nobody is home all day every day to sit on Twitch and watch content. Well, of course the viewership is down, people went back to their normal lives again.

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