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Food has become more expensive recently. Basic materials e.g. timber, nails, screws, stuff you use to build houses, have all become more expensive recently, de
by internaut 10y ago
Food has become more expensive recently.
Basic materials e.g. timber, nails, screws, stuff you use to build houses, have all become more expensive recently, despite a dramatic decline in house production (in my country at least).
Seems like few people are talking about this and it really annoys me.
No, things are not getting better and better. Many trends are going into reverse but are not being talked about.
They were getting better and better. Most of those trends stop in the early 70s or after 2008, especially basic needs like medicine and shelter.
- 3adawi 10y agousually people took about trends that is seen in decades, not 'recently' where recently here means a couple of years. If you look at food expenditure as a percentage in the 90s and now, there has been progress.
- spectrum1234 10y agoYour timeframe is way too short. You are cherry picking.
- internaut 10y agoReal median wages haven't increased for about four decades. Real energy prices have been high since the existence of OPEC with only some relief very recently. This isn't cherrypicking. That's half a lifetime.