Being Alive is Too Expensive - Price Gouging, Greed, Inflation whatever you call it is too damn high
After doing my budgeting for the upcoming month I was pretty saddened by how little my income seems to cover these days. .
I was curious and checked the existing inflation. It's not looking good. It's insane to me that over the last four years the cost of living has gone up approximately 22%. I think four years is a good period to examine, as whenever I hear "inflation is going down actually, it's gone down 2.9% since July! We are in a "cooling" period" " those people are usually referring to like maybe six month period at best. Also shut your dork-ass up man.
I checked a couple of different sites, some newspaper, some official US Government sites, and an economics site I'm like 96% certain some evil GOP-backed SuperPAC probably funds and they all seemed to say the same thing.
I'm not an economics guy, but one thing I have a vague understanding of is stuff like the Vampires and their ghouls thought COVID-19 conditions would extend forever. I'm not exactly sure of what they did or the mechanisms behind it, but it seems uniquely bad to have everyone's paying power reduced by ~22% (that's numbers probably higher for people who already in a bad spot). I'm sure it gets worse with interest rates and other fancy economic terms and devices I don't understand.
How are people supposed to survive let alone thrive, when they have 1/4 less than they did four years ago? Also they didn't have enough four years ago to be frank. I'm also sure that this was like a zillion times worse for people nations under US sanctions, as I while I'm a US citizen I don't want to think we are the only people who exists, cause that's not a very cash-money thing to do.
Like what the fuck?
I'm not on some doomer-shit, more so on that "How do i find optimism in these dire times"-shit.
They want me to kill myself so even though I frequently want to I remain alive in misery and endless suffering so they can be just that little bit more annoyed and this spiteful engine is all that keeps me going anymore.