When did everything get so expensive?

[psyop]

I was looking at rent prices in my area and all these prices are extortionate. Even studio apartments have you spending 80% of your salary on them. I’m young so I don’t have experience with paying bills but surely things weren’t this bad say 5 years ago

 

[JucheApologist]

Yea it's rough in the west. It's best you live with your family until things get better (if they ever get better)

 

[HAPPY HONKLERWEEN]

kids have it so easy these days

 

[Skelly]

turns out the free money during covid WASNT free

 

[Emba]

turns out the free money during covid WASNT free

 

[sexualeconomist]

Jews

 

[four1298]

kids have it so easy these days

These days are better than they've ever been:

The Average American Today Is 90 Times Richer Than The Average Historical Human Being

VideoI have regularly tried to get over the idea that there is just no such thing as real poverty in the United States today. Absent those entirely outside our society through addiction or mental health problems there is just no one at all who suffers from what has been the [...]

www.forbes.com

The Average American Today Is 90 Times Richer Than The Average Historical Human Being

there is just no one at all who suffers from what has been the usual human description of poverty. Actually, there’s no one at all in the US who has anything even close to what the human experience has been of poverty. By any historical, and by standards of all too large a part of the world today, all Americans are simply hugely, gargantuanly, richer than any but the fewest, most privileged, of our forefathers.

What should really leap out at you is how poor the past actually was. England in 1600 AD was at $1,000 a year.

As Brad Delong has mordantly pointed out more than once, historical living standards never fell very far below that $600 a year for every long, because if they do then they becoming dying standards, not living ones. People just don’t survive on less than that.

However, we sure do have a lot of people still talking about poverty so what are they on about? The truth is they’re not talking about poverty at all. They’re talking about how some have more than others: inequality. Maybe that is a problem in itself, maybe we should even have a public policy to try to reduce it. But inequality is a very different thing from actual poverty and the two also need to be dealt with in different ways.

 

[Pinpoint]

Lol

 

[Lithium]

Supposedly when Joe Biden became president but idk for sure cause I don’t pay much attention to the economy tbh

 

[curryboy420]

Same time when all the 25.year olds got Lamborghini's and new bmws

 

[Freixel]

Yea it's rough in the west. It's best you live with your family until things get better (if they ever get better)

I was talking about this with my family today.

Guys with PhDs who have to live with their parents jfl

The whole "independence" trend no longer makes sense.

Thank God I have a room to myself.

 

[PersonalityChad]

After the 2008 financial crisis

 

[Corvus]

The (((capitalists))) came up with a meme virus, then used it as an excuse to price gouge us while they got richer than ever before.

Now its the port strike. Get ready, you will own NOTHING soon.

 

[VideoGameCoper]

Yea it's rough in the west. It's best you live with your family until things get better (if they ever get better)

That’s why I have no intention of moving out of my mother’s house

 

[Monke]

Covid money were free while covid lasted

 

[four1298]

Things are cheaper than they've ever been. Food:

https://fee.org/articles/food-prices-in-1919-compared-to-today/

In fact, basic food items in America have become almost eight times cheaper relative to unskilled labor over the last 100 years.

 

[LeFrenchCel]

 

[3000showers]

When biden printed 50% of the dollars in one night during 2020.
But everyone forgot

 

[Wolnir]

These days are better than they've ever been:

The Average American Today Is 90 Times Richer Than The Average Historical Human Being

VideoI have regularly tried to get over the idea that there is just no such thing as real poverty in the United States today. Absent those entirely outside our society through addiction or mental health problems there is just no one at all who suffers from what has been the [...]

www.forbes.com

Just because things were mega shit back in the day, doesn't mean that they aren't shit today. This article is a cope, probably written by some faggot boomer.