Between the cost of college, healthcare, and other integral stuff like maintaining a given level of privacy and acting collectively against a threat (a pollutan

Between the cost of college, healthcare, and other integral stuff like maintaining a given level of privacy and acting collectively against a threat (a pollutant like PFOAS for instance, or addressing lies about you in mainstream media), some things have totally gotten more expensive. It used to be it was enough for an ordinary voter to write a letter. Nowadays you ought to have a college degree, know someone who knows someone, and possibly talk to a specialized consultant (college counselor, prison consultant, public relations, pen tester, and additional doctors and lawyers). Like, privacy has gotten so much worse, why can't that be included? Or for example, take me, I'm openly ADD (attention deficit disorder) and find all this "attention economy" hype disgusting. I pay real money for my own attention, and the attention I get from doing so is finite. Why isn't the explosion of ads included in the basket? The more ads, the more expensive attention becomes. Plus, positional goods. Are the coolest luxury clothes included? No, they just have normal decent clothing. But what if normal decent clothing isn't enough to be cool? Like how do you factor in high school popularity contests? Why is being cool not in the basket? The CPI is like an American form of communism, you get what you need, if you want something fancy, you go on a market that's out of bounds. Not a black market, but a place the CPI purchaser never goes. I wish I could go shopping with the CPI purchaser, that would be amazing, just buy exactly what they buy, under the same terms. Tons of things aren't counted: I believe tax hikes and interest payments aren't included either. At the same time, if the system were fair, it would be abolished instantly. People want there to be loopholes and escape hatches. It's a point system. And moreover, inflation beyond the rate of inflation helps the system break unreasonable promises it's forced to make[1]. [1] Unreasonable promise example: put an end to such-and-such a crime in America. In a country of 300 million people, only the rarest and most blatant crimes can reasonably be ended. I really do think, for instance, that anthropophagy can potentially be ended or at least reduced to once-in-a-decade because it's not very common and involves a missing or dead body. But petty theft? Drug trafficking? Forget it.