• mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Inflation for necessities like food and housing is ridiculous and exceeding 100% over three years.

    Inflation for rich luxuries have barely gone up comparatively.

    But all the reports are averaged.

    So since the rich are doing so fabulous that their numbers make it look like no one is struggling.

    Nevermind the fact that 60% of people live paycheck to paycheck.

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      9 months ago

      Can you provide… anything to actually substantiate that? Maybe some food items like fast food value options have gone up 100%. Maybe some homes in particular, extremely high demand areas have gone up.

      When you make these gigantic sweeping claims with nothing but vibes and the McChicken to point to it just feels like bad faith

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        9 months ago

        Sorry Sealion, I’m not wasting my life to show you stats you can easily get off of the internet. There are literally 5 very high profile search results that will give you historical food inflation values.

        You just want to waste my time because no matter what source I give you, you will find an irrelevant detail that lets you shift the goalposts again and again, and I’ve been through that dance non-figurativley hundreds of times.

        The increase in food costs is obvious to literally anyone who does their own grocery shopping. The fact you don’t understand this either means you are being deliberately obstinate, or indeed, do not do your own grocery shopping.

        In either case neither types of people deserve a moment more of my time.