Even taking inflation into account many things are indeed way more expensive, especially vehicles with all the bloatware of luxuries that became standard or were federally mandated. I noticed this several years ago in how the same model car that I bought in 2000 cost nearly 50% more despite the only new features being back-up cam and anti-lock brakes. Those features did not account for adding several thousand to the price of the vehicle.
Also 10 years ago I could afford my mortgage and car payment and was paying off student loans on my sole income. Now we're starting to struggle even with two incomes due to the skyrocketing costs of food and utilities and such and I'm making over twice what I did back then but inflation is wiping that out.
Exactly! It's insane to claim that things haven't gotten more expensive when a weeks worth of basic groceries and supplies costs me twice as much as they did in 2018, while the amount I make has been increasingly ravaged by taxes and inflation to the point that I'm realistically making less tangible assets for my effort even though the amount of bullshit monopoly money that I earn has increased.
$273 for half a cart the other day at my local Walmart. I wanted to shit on the floor and scream, but remembered that I wasn't in California so people might get upset.
Even taking inflation into account many things are indeed way more expensive, especially vehicles with all the bloatware of luxuries that became standard or were federally mandated. I noticed this several years ago in how the same model car that I bought in 2000 cost nearly 50% more despite the only new features being back-up cam and anti-lock brakes. Those features did not account for adding several thousand to the price of the vehicle.
Also 10 years ago I could afford my mortgage and car payment and was paying off student loans on my sole income. Now we're starting to struggle even with two incomes due to the skyrocketing costs of food and utilities and such and I'm making over twice what I did back then but inflation is wiping that out.
Exactly! It's insane to claim that things haven't gotten more expensive when a weeks worth of basic groceries and supplies costs me twice as much as they did in 2018, while the amount I make has been increasingly ravaged by taxes and inflation to the point that I'm realistically making less tangible assets for my effort even though the amount of bullshit monopoly money that I earn has increased.
When I was single a decade ago I could get by on $200 or less a month in groceries. Now that's almost a weekly bill.
$273 for half a cart the other day at my local Walmart. I wanted to shit on the floor and scream, but remembered that I wasn't in California so people might get upset.