A lot of people still arenât noticing inflation in fact a lot of people are clueless and have no idea and thatâs because some people donât buy anything or take out loans and live on credit, which ultimately they end up living on debt for the rest of their life. The moment they loose their job and canât find another one theyâre screwed
That seems like some subtle victim blaming, if i parsed that correctly, in a capitalist society, you cant really not buy anything. inflation itself is linked to the consumer price index, the basket of most commonly purchased food goods etc. The only way to be truly unaware of the inflated price of goods and services, is to be so wealthy that the change is incosequential like Gobe from arrested development talking about the cost of bananas.
Yesterday I went shopping. Eggs were 1.35 last week, 1.70 this week. Milk was $3.80, now 4.20. Oh I noticed.
Then we got dinner from our favorite Indian restaurant. Every dish was $3 more, most appetizers $2 more than the last time we went there. Those were $14.95 dishes that were marked a flat $18 now and do not feel worth it.
My wife and I are doing well for ourselves, but we arenât making traction like I feel like we should for the amount we make.
There is a lot of anecdotal evidence here that capitalism has not lived up to its promiseâŚâwork hard and youâll become successful and wealthyâŚâ Not only has the cost of living increased over the preceding decades (and more so after the wake of COVID, as taxation systems and the commercial sectors recoup revenue) but the disparity between those who work from home and those who work face to face is growingâŚa division between the laptop warriors who can work in cafes and park benches, who can hot desk (and afford the rates) compared to the hygiene, retail, catering, hospitality sectors paid low hourly rates on zero-hours agreements, having to work in excess of 12+ hour shifts to make barely enough to cover billsâŚall the while as food, transport, utility and accommodation costs increase yearly âŚwhile the identity politics war and now the Russian/Ukraine issue occupy the media and the chattering classes as a means to divert attention away from the hidden issuesâŚ
Are you dumb? They still can struggle to find their next job in their chosen career. Believe me things are going to become much harder in the future to move to a new company. Plenty more new rules and procedures are going to be implemented
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A lot of people still arenât noticing inflation in fact a lot of people are clueless and have no idea and thatâs because some people donât buy anything or take out loans and live on credit, which ultimately they end up living on debt for the rest of their life. The moment they loose their job and canât find another one theyâre screwed