Except it doesn't matter if general goods and services get cheaper if life necessities like healthcare and residence have their costs ballooning out of control.

Except it doesn't matter if general goods and services get cheaper if life necessities like healthcare and residence have their costs ballooning out of control. That $8 minimum wage job in ten years might be able to buy you twice as many trinkets at the same price but that doesn't mean anything if you have no where to live for less than $3,000 a month in rent. Thats not to say that you cannot make housing and healthcare dramatically cheaper and more efficient, but we simply are not doing it, and there doesn't seem to be nearly enough momentum to see change happen in that regard. Lives rarely get better without a good protest, but there is no uniform movement with only big wig opposition to fixing zoning laws or socializing medicine. Its all working class vs working class infighting between haves and have nots.