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You say comparison is the theft of joy, and then ask us to compare to an irrelevant metric. If living standards are falling, grocery prices have increased, ren

You say comparison is the theft of joy, and then ask us to compare to an irrelevant metric. If living standards are falling, grocery prices have increased, rents have gone up, wages have stagnated, what does the price of eggs in China have to do with my assessment of the local conditions.

linotype 1y ago
Over what period of time have prices at grocery stores and rents not increased? Food and clothes are cheap by historical standards as a percentage of income. https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/Charts/58367/food-prices_fig09.png https://ers.usda.gov/sites/default/files/_laserfiche/Charts/...
- nandomrumber 1y ago
  What does the last two years of that graph indicate?
  - alex-korr 1y ago
    That Biden/Harris lost because they let inflation get out of control for a fairly short amount of time?
  - linotype 1y ago
    Gah. Maybe that people should stop eating out so much.