Excellent. Nazi garbage is shooting your representatives dead in their homes, burning down the houses of judges who rule against them, and gaining ground every single day, and the US “left”‘s response is to snark online about how dumb they are.
You’ll be congratulating yourself for being more intelligent and informed all the way to the camps.
Fascists maintain power in large part by projecting a false sense of strength. Pointing out how weak they are weakens their support. Now you're right that we need to do more than just laugh at them, but that's all the power most people have until the shooting starts.
It is generally legal in many parts of the US to simply walk around most areas with a fully loaded firearm, a visibly holstered pistol, a rifle or shotgun slung over your back.
If markets are high, it's because of inflation. You know, where the numeric price in [moneys] for items goes up across the board because each unit of [money] has less real value? That's literally what inflation is.
Well, the stock market is doing great, set new records last Tuesday, which scares the shit out of me. There doesn't seem to be real economic backing for this activity. So what happens when we collectively wake up and realize stock prices no longer reflect company value? Seems we had a similar problem in October 1929.
I only see daily limits at the ATM. If I walked into my credit union today, and said give me my $20,000 in large bills, there would be a meeting with a manager, but they would fucking do it.
OTOH, I'm with a credit union, basically the socialist version of banking. Cannot fathom how anyone other than a business with particular banking needs uses a bank. At my place I'm closer to being an owner than a profit center.
Yeah; my partner and I talked earlier this year about how switching to a credit union aligns better with our politics but, also, especially in this environment and after his "Fair Banking" executive order. I'll be more than happy to be done with banks, forever.
They've got legal obligations, including Know Your Customer and money laundering prevention that started around 10k when I was in school but idk what it is now. Structuring a transaction so as to avoid reporting requirements often does not stand up to scrutiny so it's not worth the risk. There's a kid I went to high school with who's doing 25 for first structuring his business to avoid reporting laws and then using the advantages of not reporting to defraud the government to the tune of 8 digits. Ask him how that is going if you need convincing.
Who enforces these laws he breaks? I think the wealthy having no laws has been the main problem in the United States for my entire lifetime. That and popular vote not meaning anything
Who's to say this is a lie? The ministry of truth? /s
I understand your frustration, but he was an inveterate liar before he was elected the first time. So, at least a plurality of the voting public don't see that as much of a negative.
The US rule of law is gone. The trump regime violates the constitution daily, breaks laws daily, and has violated court rulings and judges' orders. The supreme court is corrupt and has allowed him get away with anything. Nazis Republicans in congress are corrupt and refuse to check or limit the president's power.
Masked men in plain clothes are kidnapping innocent people off the streets daily and denying them a lawyer or due process. They are literally terrorists.
You just gotta fill out 5 forms off the government site. You want form 45-IXZ not confused with 45-XIZ, and you have to provide 3 IDs for verification along with your W2 to make sure you make less than 35k a year or 70k married. You can only submit these by fax, and if all goes well, you can be approved within 3 months. More details will follow. If you don't hear anything within 2 weeks of submitting, please restart the process.
Yep, better to keep 10 people that need assistance from getting it than have a single person get it that doesn't need it hard enough. Totally would never work to just give it to everybody and get it back in taxes on the back end if people that got it didn't "need" it.
The forms and submissions are so complicated you will need to take time off work to complete them. They’re also so complicated you will need a law degree to understand how to even approach the form. Any mistakes and the forms become void and the process starts over.
Then why the fuck is a single pack of shitty instant ramen a whole fucking dollar, Donny? They were literally ten cents literally only four god damned years ago. That should be our only barometer of market success, how much it costs to buy a single pack of shitty instant ramen.
More like psychopath really. I always dreamed of doxing a lemmy bitch, find him, lock him up in a basement with me, a kilo of crack cocaine and a blowtorch
The bombing of Pyongyang was conducted as part of a gradual and sustained United Nations Command aerial bombing of North Korea during the Korean War. The first bombing raid targeting Pyongyang occurred on June 29 1950, four days after North Korea's invasion of South Korea. By the time of the armistice in July 1953, 75 percent of Pyongyang's area had been destroyed.
Gotta remind me which major US city endured this kind of bombardment.
The famine stemmed from a variety of factors. Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis. The North Korean government and its centrally planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster. North Korea attempted to obtain aid and commercial opportunities, but failed to receive initial attention
Or which US states suffered from a combination of regional depression, natural disaster, and global embargo to justify the skyrocketing cost of food.
Yes, all of the nation is well fed. Uh huh. Sure
The difference between the US and NK is that in North Korea in the late 90s, there was quite literally not enough food to support the population.
The US doesn't have that problem. We are in full on Grapes Of Wrath territory.
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
That's cool and all, but I'm mostly talking about how the government, specifically it's leader, makes blanket statements about the health and happiness of the population, and there's not only conflicting reports but actual evidence that some people in NK are actively starving.
This was to allude to the fact that Trump is acting like an authoritarian dictator.
The suffering of the North Korean people not withstanding.
I won't argue that some crappy shit went down for them, but that wasn't what I was trying to imply with my comment at all. I'm making a correlation between the current lies that we can factually disprove, being said by the government/leader of NK, and the same kind of lies coming from the government/leader of the USA.
By no means am I saying that the people of the USA, have it as bad as the people in North Korea.
I’m mostly talking about how the government, specifically it’s leader, makes blanket statements about the health and happiness of the population
Sure. Why fixate on material conditions when you can complain about rhetoric?
I’m making a correlation between the current lies that we can factually disprove, being said by the government/leader of NK, and the same kind of lies coming from the government/leader of the USA
I see so many outrageous claims aimed at NK. There's an entire cottage industry of people coming over to the US to spin insane stories full of blatant falsehoods, and Americans eat it up.
Google "Yeomni Park" for the highlights reel.
How do you decouple that from a critique of US propaganda?
I'm not here to convince you that my off the cuff remark is valid. If you disagree, that's cool.
I can't think of anything I could care less about right now than whatever chip you have on your shoulder about North Korea.
Believe what you want. The comment was supposed to be desparaging to the president of the USA.... And spoiler.... I'm not a US citizen. I don't even live there.
Look at his comments about Portland. None of what he says is happening is actually happening. Someone is definitely sending him all the AI generated news they want him to see and parrot back to reporters.
In sure they just have a bunch of internal “TV stations” that are just constantly generating videos of a certain description. He’s got the gorilla channel, the antifa burning down cities channel, and the winning bigly everyone loves Trump and the economy is great channel.
It's very clear that the majority of Americans don't pay close attention to prices when they shop. I was raised to save as much money as possible and ONLY buy store brand or food on sale, so i've been closely checking prices for over 20 years.
The last year has been DRASTIC. Red meat has gone up 40-60% where i live, pork has gone up 10%, chips have gone up 20%, chicken has only gone up 5% luckily. Egg prices don't matter cause most of those fluctuations were caused by avian flu, not inflation.
I don't drink coffee, but most american's do, Prices on coffee have gone up 100%.
Also those who track sales, beer went up about 5% to counteract the aluminum tariffs as we only supply 6% of the global aluminum supply. So i'd imagine all canned items will go up once aluminum reserves are gone at manufacturers and they have to restock. They also don't put these on sale as often and if they do, it's only $1 off, not the usual $3 or $4 off.
This is all on top of the fact the majority of americans are seeing 10-40% increases on insurance premiums for their cars and homes, energy bills are skyrocketing, water bills have gone up at least 10% in my area, Health insurance is about to double or TRIPLE for millions with the Big Bill Act the GOP passed.
2026 is going to be record prices across the board, so i hope everyone's been saving since 2024 when they saw Donald was going into office.
Coffee prices have also doubled or nearly doubled in most of Europe. So has cocoa. If climate change keeps hitting those crops they're going to be unattainable luxuries soon enough.
Good luck to you all in the US, soon enough you'll be back on pioneer diets.
Wtf are you talking about. Coffee prices have not doubled this year in Europe, that's an outrageous claim. 25% at most, and that is itself already a totally absurd level of inflation.
I disagree that Americans don't pay attention to prices. Americans paying attention to prices was one of the biggest reasons why Biden lost. Biden and Harris were claiming that they'd beat inflation, that the economy was great, that America was on the right track and Harris just needed to continue Biden's policies - and Americans looked at their grocery bills and didn't buy it.
And that's what gives me a certain amount of hope in 2026. Because if people are going to bed hungry - and they will be - no amount of shitposting by Donnie and his cronies is going to convince them they're full.
people's understanding of prices has very little to do with economic reality. and yes, Harris royally fucked up by insisting that broad econonomic indicators being good meant that it was good for the average citizen. Truth is the american economic is great if you are in the upper middle class or better and since the democratic doner base is often wealthier liberals... so it's total blind spot for them. Harris was not listening to with auto workers in the Midwest... hence Trump got their votes because he was listening to them.
that's why you go to food banks. or calorie count to maximize your calories per dollar. i've been there.
but things cost what they cost. whether you think they should cost that much... that's the perception. a lot of USA foodstuffs are highly subsidized and others are not. Red meat is a luxury food and is priced accordingly and if anything it's still underpriced vastly compared to it's true cost.
Pork and chicken are much cheaper. I can get a whole chicken for $2/lbs... do that's mostly what I eat for protein these days. I'd be insane if I was buying red meat at the $15-25/lb it costs. but i also thought it was insane back when it was only 10/lb.
If you are buying lobster or other high priced foods while financially struggling... that's just making bad choices.
Red meat is a luxury food and is priced accordingly
Its really not. If you look at the beef industry profit margins in the last 6 years, they got supercharged during and after the pandemic because they realized that due to the restrictions placed on imports they could charge whatever they wanted for beef.
According to Harry Frankfurt's influential 2005 book On Bullshit, the liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it, while the bullshitter does not care whether what they say is true or false. Eduardo Porter writes in The Washington Post that Frankfurt's bullshitter definition fits Trump: "To subvert the truth, you must first know it, or at least think you do. That’s not Trump’s game."
For example, Trump does not, in Porter's argument, have to check US unemployment or inflation statistics to assert that "we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare", because for bullshit, the facts do not matter. On the contrary, by ignoring the facts, bullshit has the power to guide group beliefs in a politically desirable direction and thereby to shape group identities. As early as 2015, Jeet Heer wrote that Trump’s propensity to bullshit is not an aberration in his party: "Over the last two decades, the GOP as a party has increasingly adopted positions that are not just politically extreme but also in defiance of facts and science".
The health of the stock market is not an indicator of inflation in any way. In fact, corporate profit gouging would exacerbate inflation, while creating higher profits that would increase the stock price.
The president doesn't have to be an economic genius, he can hire people for that, but they should at least understand the basics of how the economy works. Of course, if you have operated on the wrong side of the law for your entire life, you have no actual experience in real world business.
"Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations—that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago."
I took economics, two whole years of it in college. By no means am I an economist, and I wouldn't assume I know enough about anything economically to make any value statements on a lot of what's going on.
But I will say that "early prices" is a term I've never heard before.
Let’s start with the boldest claim first — it’s that AI is not just in a bubble, but one 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble, and even four times bigger than the 2008 global real-estate bubble.
US egg production is now at record levels. So much for supply-demand economics they taught you in grade 8. All that assumes a free market, which is the biggest lie in economics.
I drive every day past a house that still has one of those "TRUMP LOW PRICES KAMALA HIGH PRICES" fucking signs in their front yard. To add to it, the family that lives there is black and the house is part of a government housing project provided by Delaware Country. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be inside that house and listening to the people there talking, and I shudder.
Clearly he's never done a normal person thing like grocery shop. Costco beef stew meat went from $5.40/lb to now $8.45/lb in a year looking at an old receipt in the app. Steaks are pretty much out of budget for most people nowadays, doubled in price.
No inflation and price still the same would be true. But no more inflation doesn't cancel out previous inflation, it just means its not getting any worse. Your quality of life has fallen, it will now remain this bad for a little while before dropping again shortly.
inflation also increased wages substantailly. if you didn't get an increase you should have changed jobs to get one. 5 years ago things were cheaper sure, but mc donlands wasn't paying 15-25/hr 5 years ago either, it was more like 10.
Averages and pretty pictures are nice, but context matters. From that page you just linked:
Despite the level of wage growth reaching 6.7 percent in the summer of 2022, it has not been enough to curb the impact of even higher inflation rates. The federally mandated minimum wage in the United States has not increased since 2009, meaning that individuals working minimum wage jobs have taken a real terms pay cut for the last twelve years. There are discrepancies between states - the minimum wage in California can be as high as 15.50 U.S. dollars per hour, while a business in Oklahoma may be as low as two U.S. dollars per hour. However, even the higher wage rates in states like California and Washington may be lacking - one analysis found that if minimum wage had kept up with productivity, the minimum hourly wage in the U.S. should have been 22.88 dollars per hour in 2021. Additionally, the impact of decreased purchasing power due to inflation will impact different parts of society in different ways with stark contrast in average wages due to both gender and race.
Wage growth exceeding inflation for a bit recently doesn't make up for the preceding decades of wage stagnation, and even if it did, wages still haven't grown fast enough in the past few years to catch up to inflation. So my original point still stands - unless wage growth outpaces inflation, it doesn't actually lead to an improvement in quality of life.
wage growth isn't universal or even, in some industries it exploded, in others it has gone negative. if you want a livable wage... you don't go into teaching for example. i wanted to teach but i saw that that job would stagnate so I didn't pursue it.
if you want higher wages you have to move jobs or locations. that's always been true of american life. the government isn't going to jack wages to 30/hr ever. esp not the feds, but some states have made big improvements. not to mention you are not suppose to stay in a minimum wage job.
Why shouldn't teachers make a livable wage? Why shouldn't the minimum wage be a livable wage? What do you think the term "minimum wage" originally meant?
Make your definitive and sweeping statements if you want, but all it's showing is that you don't understand economics or history.
they should, but they don't. you can't build a future on what should be. you build it on what is. you have to go where the money is if you want to make money. should artists be paid more too? if you want a financially stable life you don't pursue art.
I live in reality man. I don't live in this lemmy revolutionary mindset that one day soon things will magically get better and everyone will become a communist/socialist and low wage menial jobs will suddenly be lucrative. I've also known plenty of 'leftists' who once they get 35 or own property... become rabid capitalists. funny how economic reality tends to defeat people's youthful idealism once they stop being young and have to pay their own way in life. a lot of the 'anti capitalist anarchist' i know who went on about how landlords were evil.... now own multiple properties and complain about their tenants not paying enough rent and keep jacking the rates 5-10% every year.
most of the former teachers I known have all quit because they wanted a livable wage. They mostly went into publishing or technology or healthcare. If they were women and they married a wealthy guy so they could continue to teach. Part of the reason there are so few male teachers anymore is because men can't expect to find a partner to pay their bills for them, they are expected to pay the bills, and they understand teaching doesn't pay the bills anymore.
Many of us are struggling and there are no jobs around that pay over $40 an hour, these types of statistics are useless for the regular working american. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living at all.
I understand that. Sounds like you have to move then. If opportunity is not available in your town, you have to go to where it is.
Exactly why I left my hometown and never ever returned. There is no economic opportunity there. Most everyone who stayed there works for their parents business or took it over. There were no good jobs there and the residents actively vote against any/all economic development because they like living in a economically stagnate place and being dependent on state/fed money for basic services like water, sewer, and schools.
Of course not everyone got that raise, plenty of places are still paying those low wages but working people still have to eat inflation. And if you're on a fixed income from a pension or social security you're hosed.
You’ve gotten two new security directives rolled into one statement: atheism (presumably just any belief that is anti-Christian; I have a feeling non-Christian beliefs won’t be counted) and anti-Capitalism (now considered a predictor for political violence).
I’m getting my 3 year old nephew two things now but nobody else is getting shit cause I ain’t buying anything else but food and seasonings for said food
Oh, that means you probably haven't seen this interview with her before. Just watch the first minute, that's all you need to really dispel any doubts you may have had. It really sucks to watch, even knowing how terrible of a person she is today.
His followers can't read or understand any actual financial literacy sources. So they just choose to believe what he says. Trump says Stocks are up...okay. Trump says prices are down...great. Why bother looking at the financial section of literally any newspaper when it's just going to lie to you and make your brain hurt because they hate dear leader?
So he is doing exactly what they criticized Biden for doing only the middle and lower class are way worse off now. Nothing to see here folks stock market guuuud.
About the only true thing he said is stock market record highs. Unfortunately, most people aren't day traders and actually earn a wage to buy necessities so the ups and downs of the market in the short term are meaningless.
The only thing somewhat saving me right now is unfortunately utilizing Amazon grocery delivery. I'm spending less because I'm not browsing the aisles and only getting the necessities.
I think it didn't propagate to my instance right away, I see about 3 minute difference between our comments. I do the same thing though, I'm sure people have seen my random rants for similar reasons.
What's crazy is gas is still ~$3 around where I'm at. Inflation has gone up something like 22% over the last 4-5 years and gas is still pegged there.
I mean I get it, people flip out once it gets over $4, so I'm wondering what they're doing to keep it down. Maybe it's demand is low because people aren't doing as much but idk
Gas prices really depend on where you live, some parts of the country do not have low prices. You are right though, supply is up because US oil production is as high as it has ever been in recent years and much of that is due to fracking. If it weren't for improvements in US oil production prices would definitely be significantly higher.
Yeah, eggs are a terrible example. The sky high price last year wasn't because of inflation, it was because farms had to kill giant numbers of chickens due to the bird flu. If you take something like milk, it's more representative.
Want cheap eggs? Factory farming is the only way. Bird flu culls will forever make prices bounce around.
My wife and I are wanting to raise chickens, she has the experience and we have a solid hen house, just need fencing. My last vegan gf didn't like that idea, said it was still exploitative and hurt the chickens keeping them laying eggs. Gf before her had a couple of backyard chickens and they seemed happy and content, loved her. What are your thoughts?
I really don't know what anyone is smoking about these prices. Things seem entirely reasonable/cheap to me. But I never paid $1 for a dozen eggs I guess? Not sure where people live that eggs are that cheap. I can remember them being $2 a dozen, but that was a decade ago and gas was $3/gal back then too so it's actually cheaper now.
Coffee specifically is through the roof. Just 6 months ago a bag of New England Coffee was $5.99. Today that same bag of coffee is $11.69.
Bacon is $9 a pound. I'm straight up priced out of beef (not necessarily a bad thing).
Even my cat litter, Cedarific (wood based), this time last year was $6.99 a bag, and is now $8.99. I don't know how folks manage with the popular clay litters, they're almost $20 for a box. Fancy feast has gone from 69¢ a can to ¢98.
Why is store brand Pinesole $9 a bottle? It was on sale for $2.99 the other week and I bought 8 of them. Its now back up to $8.59. A Can of soup is $4 not on sale.
Olive oil is out of control, but a believe some of that is because of climate change.
I don't buy it often, but sometimes I'd pay the $5 for a Tony's chocolate bar for cookies. The price went up sometime in the last few months, and is now $6.99 and I just can't do it.
We just had to replace out car battery. The cheapest one was $180 at Walmart.
I buy single origin coffee. prices haven't risen for me in the 5 years i've been buying it. it's still $16-20 a bag. i've had a cat for 8 years and cat litter has always been $20 for 40lbs.
bacon for me is $6 a lb. again, not sure where you live or where you are buying it. That price has been relatively stable for me, but also I buy bacon like once every 4 months.
The only thing i've seen go up subtantially is meat and pre-packaged frozen meals. And the only legit massive inflation I've seen is restaurant prices. i can't go out to eat now for less than $50. My $20 in meat per week is probably now up to $30.
I really don’t know what anyone is smoking about these prices
Lots of regional variation. Lots of prices are sticky (once a grocery store can clear it's shelves at $X*2 they aren't going to lower the prices). Lots of the comments are straight up rumor, impression, word of mouth, or deliberate propaganda.
Things seem entirely reasonable/cheap to me
The supply chain shake up continues to rattle the automotive industry. Chip shortages plague electronics stores and make newer phones, computers, and consoles either unaffordable or unavailable. Trump tariffs on imports like pasta and coffee are showing up on store shelves over time - you can get cheaper domestic products, but if you're buying Brand X, you won't miss the price spike.
Meanwhile, rent is still extravogant. College debt is still an albatross. Health care isn't getting any cheaper. And wages are still skating in the danger zone for cost of living.
I wouldn't call anything "cheap" right now, either. Especially not if you're financing a bunch of credit card debt.
True. It's also relative to your consumption patterns. If you are buying bottom self products and they go up from $2 to $3 that is a 50% increase. not so much if you are buying a $20 product that went up to 22. Also with gas... big difference if you drive a gas guzzler vs a hybrid. I barely notice gas prices changes because I fill up once a month or less and my car has a 10G tank, so a $1 price increase in gas is an extra $10 a month for me. I'm not buying 100 gallons of gas per month like some folks.
Personally... I paid off all my debts aggressively and I don't overspend. After college I paid down my $35K in debt aggressively. and it was gone by the time I was 26. I don't really empathize with people who load up on debt and then complain about it. i have no empathy for some low wage worker who decided to load up a credit card with $7000 to go traveling and then is struggling to make the payments... life isn't so hard if you don't overspend and budget. A lot of the people I've met recently... who are 'struggling' are spending 50% of their paycheck at bars/restaurants who absolutely refuse to be more responsible with their money. I also haven't purchased a new computer or a phone in like 5 years, because there is zero need for me to do so. I keep my stuff until it breaks. From my POV where I live.... most people are simple massively overspending. I know couples who have two cars they barely use and spend like 800/mo for them, but they INSIST they 'need' them and complain about how expensive they are... not to mention they are buying new iphones every other year... etc.
Auto prices are also declining this year. I'm going to buy a new car because they are going below MSRP again and the borrow rates are dropping. True that a year or two ago they were still going for above MSRP. My car is 10 years old and at this point I'd rather get a new one than start spending $1000s on repairs. But I'm also going to keep my payment to $300 or less and buy a basic small sedan in the 30K range and likely I can get a 35K car for 32K or less out the door. Not going to buy a 60K+ truck with 900 dollar payment that needs to be filled up every week for $100 and has 300/mo insurance payments on top of all that. No idea why people buy vehicles like that for commuting to an office, but a lot of people do.
If the people you interact with on a daily basis are people with 2 cars and an 800 dollar monthly payment on them, then that may explain why you think that. Hang out with people who work menial jobs. People who work in the back of kitchens, people who work a terrible retail job, people who actually are struggling. Then tell me that everyone is just overspending.
most people who work menial jobs in my city aren't living off that money. they are living off their parents while pursuing arts careers and they are doing menial jobs for spending money. for them being poor is a temporary lifestyle thing and a lot of them around 30 just go back to school and go enter the corporate workforce when it stops being 'cool' to be a tattooed barista making 10/hr. their struggle is entirely aesthetic. i know several people with computer science degrees who are also doing this... because they dont' want to work for 'the man'. like if you are 30 and you chose to be an artist and you are struggling because you refuse to work a full time job for the past decade.. that's not really legit struggle.
i live in the most expensive city in the country my many metrics. even menial jobs here pay quite well. janitorial work will easily get you 50K a year which may not be luxurious but will easily cover the basics.
as for the immigrants... they are living subsidized housing multiple people to a room. they make it work. They aren't eating out, they aren't traveling, they aren't buying expensive cars and whining about it. I actually regularly make donations to immigrants to supply them with computer equipment that my company has decomissioned.
I respect them, because that's how I grew up myself and it's why I live so well today. I don't respect people in their 30s who whine about how hard life is because they made self-indulgence choices. Teachers are underpaid for sure, but if you are only making 60K a year and you're spending 10K traveling ever summer and paying it back over the next year and never building savings... your 'poverty' is entirely your own choice.
Look. I don't know you as a person, but from what I see you really love to conflate your anecdotal experiences with facts. I hope one day you'll truly understand compassion. I don't think you're a bad person, but you seem misguided.
I don’t really empathize with people who load up on debt and then complain about it. i have no empathy for some low wage worker who decided to load up a credit card with $7000 to go traveling and then is struggling to make the payments…
You don't have to empathize, even if that $7k is as often on medical bills or car repairs or business debts as vacations.
The point is that economic predators exist and plenty of people feel the crushing grip whether or not they're prudent with their meager savings. They notice that 50% jump in bottom rung prices and complain accordingly.
Auto prices are also declining this year.
EVs have a baked in $7500 price hike. And - at least according to Edmunds in 2024 - the spread between new and used cars has never been larger, with used cars falling (pressed by high interest rates) while new cars continue to climb. At to the problem that we effectively don't have domestically produced compact cars anymore, and even the periodic modest decline in model price is eclipsed by the lack of economy type cars to purchase.
But I’m also going to keep my payment to $300 or less and buy a basic small sedan in the 30K range and likely I can get a 35K car for 32K or less out the door.
It's crazy that $32k is the low end of the market for a new car in this country. Overseas, you can find cars in the $10k range, with the ultra-compact and alternative vehicle markets gets as low as $2k.
In the US, it's hard to find a fucking bicycle for less than $2k anymore
My price barometer is flavored seltzer water. It's reliably been $4-5 for years. What has changed is the quantity. Pre-Covid that was the price for a 12 pack. After, it was the price for an 8 pack. Some brands have even gone down to 6 packs at that price point. That type of shrinkflation has happened to a lot of products.
Anywhere that isn't the coast. I filled up for $2.50 recently. Yes, that's per gallon. Yes, in the USA. If youre paying more, its a state tax issue, not a supply issue.
And the GOPs will eat it up right while they are paying higher prices.
How many GOP's does it take to change a lightbulb? ZERO
Trump says he changed it and they all clap in the dark.
Ooh that's a good one
Excellent. Nazi garbage is shooting your representatives dead in their homes, burning down the houses of judges who rule against them, and gaining ground every single day, and the US “left”‘s response is to snark online about how dumb they are.
You’ll be congratulating yourself for being more intelligent and informed all the way to the camps.
Fascists maintain power in large part by projecting a false sense of strength. Pointing out how weak they are weakens their support. Now you're right that we need to do more than just laugh at them, but that's all the power most people have until the shooting starts.
And what do you suggest we do?
It is generally legal in many parts of the US to simply walk around most areas with a fully loaded firearm, a visibly holstered pistol, a rifle or shotgun slung over your back.
https://www.rijalhabibulloh.com/2023/07/states-with-open-carry-gun-laws.html?m=1
Obviously, consult your state, county, and local city city laws, but uh... yeah.
Round up a posse, do some uh, neighborhood watch patrols, in a large group, obviously steer clear of any specific 'no guns allowed' zones.
Obviously keep your distance from any armed officers, don't antagonize them, don't interfere.
Just be there.
Watching.
This is what you call a nonviolent show of force.
There are a good number of former US Military, veterans, who are extremely not happy about what is going on.
Like this guy:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KiJOpZa0W2o
The white dude, who runs the channel, is an ex Marine.
Err, well, a Marine would tell you there's no such thing as a former Marine, but anyway...
Black dude whose clip he covers appears to be, well, a fairly well decorated Army vet.
They are both pretty not happy right now.
If markets are high, it's because of inflation. You know, where the numeric price in [moneys] for items goes up across the board because each unit of [money] has less real value? That's literally what inflation is.
I was about to say…. I think those might be related.
Can't believe Wharton hasn't revoked his degree yet.
next you're gonna tell me the dollar is down ~10% year to date
I can't Afford CHRISTMAS presents for my Kids and have lost 10 Pounds because I can't BUY enough food but TRUMP said this so it's RIGHT!
-People who Do Their Own Research TM!
Losing ten pounds is likely a good idea for people like this.
Let's look on the bright side of food scarcity due to over pricing. Fat Americans can lose some weight, amiriiight!
Spoken like a true fascist enabler.
Not even true on it's own merit either. If it was, then food deserts wouldn't be linked to increased rates of obesity.
Meanwhile the dollar is crashing worldwide, our allies are now isolating us, and federal troops are shooting citizens!
So much winning it's hard to keep up!!
As someone who lives in Canada:
We'll fucking do it again too.
Project 2025 was a success, good job MAGAts the future is a lot clearer... Cleansed of intelligent life
Well, the stock market is doing great, set new records last Tuesday, which scares the shit out of me. There doesn't seem to be real economic backing for this activity. So what happens when we collectively wake up and realize stock prices no longer reflect company value? Seems we had a similar problem in October 1929.
Bubble do tend to make the stock market look great.
If anything, it's a sign it's popping soon.
Another sign is the dollar is down 2 more cents to the Euro, now trading at about 83.5¢ per Euro, when last month it was at an average of 85.5.
They're gonna try and juice the economy all the way up to the midterm elections, but I'm unsure if the economy even has that much to squeeze.
Either way it's gonna do a nosedive next year.
Then they can blame Democrats for the crash and re-elect Trump in 2028!
Stocks are up because the dollar is losing value. Lol inflation even affects stocks!
The 10 year cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio is well past 1929 levels. The only other time to be higher was the dotcom burst.
Except now banks have built in protection from bank runs. There's a reason you have a daily withdrawal limit on your accounts.
I only see daily limits at the ATM. If I walked into my credit union today, and said give me my $20,000 in large bills, there would be a meeting with a manager, but they would fucking do it.
OTOH, I'm with a credit union, basically the socialist version of banking. Cannot fathom how anyone other than a business with particular banking needs uses a bank. At my place I'm closer to being an owner than a profit center.
Yeah; my partner and I talked earlier this year about how switching to a credit union aligns better with our politics but, also, especially in this environment and after his "Fair Banking" executive order. I'll be more than happy to be done with banks, forever.
I did the exact thing with my credit union. Mine was a check since I was just moving it to a different credit union, but they did do it.
They've got legal obligations, including Know Your Customer and money laundering prevention that started around 10k when I was in school but idk what it is now. Structuring a transaction so as to avoid reporting requirements often does not stand up to scrutiny so it's not worth the risk. There's a kid I went to high school with who's doing 25 for first structuring his business to avoid reporting laws and then using the advantages of not reporting to defraud the government to the tune of 8 digits. Ask him how that is going if you need convincing.
What are the benefits of switching to a credit union?
This is why “debanking” is being scrutinized right now.
They know it’s coming.
"No longer" lmao
I don't understand how it's legal; for the country's elected leader, to just outright lie and gas light, ALL of the time !
Who enforces these laws he breaks? I think the wealthy having no laws has been the main problem in the United States for my entire lifetime. That and popular vote not meaning anything
Who's to say this is a lie? The ministry of truth? /s
I understand your frustration, but he was an inveterate liar before he was elected the first time. So, at least a plurality of the voting public don't see that as much of a negative.
Inveterate... I had to look up a new word today. Thank you
When you own the news, or what morons think is news, so no one calls you out
The US rule of law is gone. The trump regime violates the constitution daily, breaks laws daily, and has violated court rulings and judges' orders. The supreme court is corrupt and has allowed him get away with anything.
NazisRepublicans in congress are corrupt and refuse to check or limit the president's power.Masked men in plain clothes are kidnapping innocent people off the streets daily and denying them a lawyer or due process. They are literally terrorists.
The chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams per week
Where tf do I collect my chocolate ration!?
You just gotta fill out 5 forms off the government site. You want form 45-IXZ not confused with 45-XIZ, and you have to provide 3 IDs for verification along with your W2 to make sure you make less than 35k a year or 70k married. You can only submit these by fax, and if all goes well, you can be approved within 3 months. More details will follow. If you don't hear anything within 2 weeks of submitting, please restart the process.
Yep, better to keep 10 people that need assistance from getting it than have a single person get it that doesn't need it hard enough. Totally would never work to just give it to everybody and get it back in taxes on the back end if people that got it didn't "need" it.
The forms and submissions are so complicated you will need to take time off work to complete them. They’re also so complicated you will need a law degree to understand how to even approach the form. Any mistakes and the forms become void and the process starts over.
I recognise that reference just so you know
Finally
Fucking coffee in canada is becoming exorbitant
What about the regular kind?
Still too pricey
Then why the fuck is a single pack of shitty instant ramen a whole fucking dollar, Donny? They were literally ten cents literally only four god damned years ago. That should be our only barometer of market success, how much it costs to buy a single pack of shitty instant ramen.
You're a genocide voter. You deserve the dictatute you wished for foreigners coward
what
You see:
Ramen expensive bc bad economic policy
want cheap ramen tho
???
youre a genocide voter
you deserve the dictatute (?), foreigners coward
And what country are you from?
Western papooasia. Why?
You don’t even know how to spell the name of where you live and you expect us to think your political takes hold any validity?
Are you retarded
More like psychopath really. I always dreamed of doxing a lemmy bitch, find him, lock him up in a basement with me, a kilo of crack cocaine and a blowtorch
So, yeah, retarded.
Bro what, where did this come from. Bot?
Yeah you got me I'm a Russian bot. Beep boop
Fucking idiot
You're the one bringing up completely unrelated topics, implying a misunderstanding of context.
Who's more of an idiot here?
God damn, my four month old comment about how there is more than one problem throughout history really triggered your stupid tanky ass, huh?
Yea suck my mantwat
What’s the response you were hoping for with that?
I guess I was hoping you sucked my mantwat. Can't you read?
Who hurt you?
Your mum. She broke my pp with her tiny bhole.
Don't laugh I'm in insufferable pain
That sounds like something she would do. What a skank.
You know what this shit reminds me of? North Korea.
Yes, all of the nation is well fed. Uh huh. Sure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Pyongyang
Gotta remind me which major US city endured this kind of bombardment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_North_Korean_famine
Or which US states suffered from a combination of regional depression, natural disaster, and global embargo to justify the skyrocketing cost of food.
The difference between the US and NK is that in North Korea in the late 90s, there was quite literally not enough food to support the population.
The US doesn't have that problem. We are in full on Grapes Of Wrath territory.
That's cool and all, but I'm mostly talking about how the government, specifically it's leader, makes blanket statements about the health and happiness of the population, and there's not only conflicting reports but actual evidence that some people in NK are actively starving.
This was to allude to the fact that Trump is acting like an authoritarian dictator.
The suffering of the North Korean people not withstanding.
I won't argue that some crappy shit went down for them, but that wasn't what I was trying to imply with my comment at all. I'm making a correlation between the current lies that we can factually disprove, being said by the government/leader of NK, and the same kind of lies coming from the government/leader of the USA.
By no means am I saying that the people of the USA, have it as bad as the people in North Korea.
Sure. Why fixate on material conditions when you can complain about rhetoric?
I see so many outrageous claims aimed at NK. There's an entire cottage industry of people coming over to the US to spin insane stories full of blatant falsehoods, and Americans eat it up.
Google "Yeomni Park" for the highlights reel.
How do you decouple that from a critique of US propaganda?
Nah. I'm good.
I'm not here to convince you that my off the cuff remark is valid. If you disagree, that's cool.
I can't think of anything I could care less about right now than whatever chip you have on your shoulder about North Korea.
Believe what you want. The comment was supposed to be desparaging to the president of the USA.... And spoiler.... I'm not a US citizen. I don't even live there.
Neat, huh?
Have a good day.
I'm glad to hear it. I was worried.
Have a good day.
I think you might be replying to the wrong comment. Not sure.
Miller sure is filling that orange head with all sorts of AI slop videos!
It didn't occur to me that they would be controlling him through AI videos but holy shit does that check out.
Look at his comments about Portland. None of what he says is happening is actually happening. Someone is definitely sending him all the AI generated news they want him to see and parrot back to reporters.
In sure they just have a bunch of internal “TV stations” that are just constantly generating videos of a certain description. He’s got the gorilla channel, the antifa burning down cities channel, and the winning bigly everyone loves Trump and the economy is great channel.
It's very clear that the majority of Americans don't pay close attention to prices when they shop. I was raised to save as much money as possible and ONLY buy store brand or food on sale, so i've been closely checking prices for over 20 years.
The last year has been DRASTIC. Red meat has gone up 40-60% where i live, pork has gone up 10%, chips have gone up 20%, chicken has only gone up 5% luckily. Egg prices don't matter cause most of those fluctuations were caused by avian flu, not inflation.
I don't drink coffee, but most american's do, Prices on coffee have gone up 100%.
Also those who track sales, beer went up about 5% to counteract the aluminum tariffs as we only supply 6% of the global aluminum supply. So i'd imagine all canned items will go up once aluminum reserves are gone at manufacturers and they have to restock. They also don't put these on sale as often and if they do, it's only $1 off, not the usual $3 or $4 off.
This is all on top of the fact the majority of americans are seeing 10-40% increases on insurance premiums for their cars and homes, energy bills are skyrocketing, water bills have gone up at least 10% in my area, Health insurance is about to double or TRIPLE for millions with the Big Bill Act the GOP passed.
2026 is going to be record prices across the board, so i hope everyone's been saving since 2024 when they saw Donald was going into office.
Coffee prices have also doubled or nearly doubled in most of Europe. So has cocoa. If climate change keeps hitting those crops they're going to be unattainable luxuries soon enough.
Good luck to you all in the US, soon enough you'll be back on pioneer diets.
Wtf are you talking about. Coffee prices have not doubled this year in Europe, that's an outrageous claim. 25% at most, and that is itself already a totally absurd level of inflation.
I was in Europe last week and I'll be there again next week- what are you talking about?
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coffee
https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cocoa
The price on store shelves lags behind by a few weeks/months.
It’s not a US-only phenomenon that those prices rose a lot, that’s all I was saying.
I disagree that Americans don't pay attention to prices. Americans paying attention to prices was one of the biggest reasons why Biden lost. Biden and Harris were claiming that they'd beat inflation, that the economy was great, that America was on the right track and Harris just needed to continue Biden's policies - and Americans looked at their grocery bills and didn't buy it.
And that's what gives me a certain amount of hope in 2026. Because if people are going to bed hungry - and they will be - no amount of shitposting by Donnie and his cronies is going to convince them they're full.
prices are about perception. just like politics.
people's understanding of prices has very little to do with economic reality. and yes, Harris royally fucked up by insisting that broad econonomic indicators being good meant that it was good for the average citizen. Truth is the american economic is great if you are in the upper middle class or better and since the democratic doner base is often wealthier liberals... so it's total blind spot for them. Harris was not listening to with auto workers in the Midwest... hence Trump got their votes because he was listening to them.
Not when the cost of your food exceeds the amount of money in your bank account.
that's why you go to food banks. or calorie count to maximize your calories per dollar. i've been there.
but things cost what they cost. whether you think they should cost that much... that's the perception. a lot of USA foodstuffs are highly subsidized and others are not. Red meat is a luxury food and is priced accordingly and if anything it's still underpriced vastly compared to it's true cost.
Pork and chicken are much cheaper. I can get a whole chicken for $2/lbs... do that's mostly what I eat for protein these days. I'd be insane if I was buying red meat at the $15-25/lb it costs. but i also thought it was insane back when it was only 10/lb.
If you are buying lobster or other high priced foods while financially struggling... that's just making bad choices.
Its really not. If you look at the beef industry profit margins in the last 6 years, they got supercharged during and after the pandemic because they realized that due to the restrictions placed on imports they could charge whatever they wanted for beef.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/statistics-information
Beef consumption rates haven't changed much at all in the last 20 years. Yet profit margins have more that doubled.
Chicken price increases at least have the excuse of the bird flu epidemic wiping out millions of birds in a really short period of time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump#Bullshit
that book is very good. read it when it came out in 2005.
One part denial, one part disinformation (from his handlers), one part dementia. A wonderful mix to see in a world leader.
Plus Stephen Miller showing him AI videos of the dystopian reality he imagined.
The health of the stock market is not an indicator of inflation in any way. In fact, corporate profit gouging would exacerbate inflation, while creating higher profits that would increase the stock price.
The president doesn't have to be an economic genius, he can hire people for that, but they should at least understand the basics of how the economy works. Of course, if you have operated on the wrong side of the law for your entire life, you have no actual experience in real world business.
This man is delusional. He needs to be removed from office.
Remember when they made Bush Sr a one term loser for lying? The Republicans are just sad cult followers at this point.
Are they sad and cult followers, or sad people who are following a cult?
I just want to be clear about this stuff.
"Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations—that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago."
It's true that the iPhones of today are much faster than the iPhones of fifty years ago.
It's one banana Michael, what can it cost, $10?
Those were the days, when you could get a whole banana for ten bucks!
I might be dumb, can someone tell me what "early prices" means?
I took economics, two whole years of it in college. By no means am I an economist, and I wouldn't assume I know enough about anything economically to make any value statements on a lot of what's going on.
But I will say that "early prices" is a term I've never heard before.
Half of the record high stock market is because the dollar value has gone to all time lows, so it looks good only for usd.
The other half is because the stock market is based on vibes and doesn't actually follow any pattern
and the AI bubble which, once popped, will bring down the US economy twice as hard as the 2008 housing crisis did
In USD amounts, it's 4 times the size of the mortgage bubble and 15 times the size of the dot-bomb. Or, so I've heard.
source
Ready for the adults to return to the room now.
US egg production is now at record levels. So much for supply-demand economics they taught you in grade 8. All that assumes a free market, which is the biggest lie in economics.
Yeah my eggs are definitely cheaper than when he took office, but I don't vote for a president for the price of one commodity.
Eggs are cheaper because the flock had been restored from the influenza cull. Nothing to do with any politician.
I understand that. But the post title says eggs are double and gas is still rising. That hasn't been my experience.
I drive every day past a house that still has one of those "TRUMP LOW PRICES KAMALA HIGH PRICES" fucking signs in their front yard. To add to it, the family that lives there is black and the house is part of a government housing project provided by Delaware Country. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be inside that house and listening to the people there talking, and I shudder.
A lot of hurrdurring going on there.
Clearly he's never done a normal person thing like grocery shop. Costco beef stew meat went from $5.40/lb to now $8.45/lb in a year looking at an old receipt in the app. Steaks are pretty much out of budget for most people nowadays, doubled in price.
He can't fucking open doors on his own.
He can't even climb stairs on his own without taking cues from his wife.
No inflation and price still the same would be true. But no more inflation doesn't cancel out previous inflation, it just means its not getting any worse. Your quality of life has fallen, it will now remain this bad for a little while before dropping again shortly.
I can't eat stock markets so that is useless.
inflation also increased wages substantailly. if you didn't get an increase you should have changed jobs to get one. 5 years ago things were cheaper sure, but mc donlands wasn't paying 15-25/hr 5 years ago either, it was more like 10.
Unless wage growth outpaces inflation, those wage increases don't actually improve quality of life.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/
wage growth has exceeded inflation the past 3 years.
Averages and pretty pictures are nice, but context matters. From that page you just linked:
Wage growth exceeding inflation for a bit recently doesn't make up for the preceding decades of wage stagnation, and even if it did, wages still haven't grown fast enough in the past few years to catch up to inflation. So my original point still stands - unless wage growth outpaces inflation, it doesn't actually lead to an improvement in quality of life.
wage growth isn't universal or even, in some industries it exploded, in others it has gone negative. if you want a livable wage... you don't go into teaching for example. i wanted to teach but i saw that that job would stagnate so I didn't pursue it.
if you want higher wages you have to move jobs or locations. that's always been true of american life. the government isn't going to jack wages to 30/hr ever. esp not the feds, but some states have made big improvements. not to mention you are not suppose to stay in a minimum wage job.
Why shouldn't teachers make a livable wage? Why shouldn't the minimum wage be a livable wage? What do you think the term "minimum wage" originally meant?
Make your definitive and sweeping statements if you want, but all it's showing is that you don't understand economics or history.
they should, but they don't. you can't build a future on what should be. you build it on what is. you have to go where the money is if you want to make money. should artists be paid more too? if you want a financially stable life you don't pursue art.
I live in reality man. I don't live in this lemmy revolutionary mindset that one day soon things will magically get better and everyone will become a communist/socialist and low wage menial jobs will suddenly be lucrative. I've also known plenty of 'leftists' who once they get 35 or own property... become rabid capitalists. funny how economic reality tends to defeat people's youthful idealism once they stop being young and have to pay their own way in life. a lot of the 'anti capitalist anarchist' i know who went on about how landlords were evil.... now own multiple properties and complain about their tenants not paying enough rent and keep jacking the rates 5-10% every year.
most of the former teachers I known have all quit because they wanted a livable wage. They mostly went into publishing or technology or healthcare. If they were women and they married a wealthy guy so they could continue to teach. Part of the reason there are so few male teachers anymore is because men can't expect to find a partner to pay their bills for them, they are expected to pay the bills, and they understand teaching doesn't pay the bills anymore.
Many of us are struggling and there are no jobs around that pay over $40 an hour, these types of statistics are useless for the regular working american. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living at all.
I understand that. Sounds like you have to move then. If opportunity is not available in your town, you have to go to where it is.
Exactly why I left my hometown and never ever returned. There is no economic opportunity there. Most everyone who stayed there works for their parents business or took it over. There were no good jobs there and the residents actively vote against any/all economic development because they like living in a economically stagnate place and being dependent on state/fed money for basic services like water, sewer, and schools.
Of course not everyone got that raise, plenty of places are still paying those low wages but working people still have to eat inflation. And if you're on a fixed income from a pension or social security you're hosed.
my mom is on ss and her payment went up like 20% in '23
Boycott Christmas
That makes you a terrorist now.
EDIT: I think it does.
checks notes Looks like Hopesdead is correct. You are a terrorist for saying you won't support Christmas now.
Thank God Trump finally saved Christmas from those godless heathen Demonrats.
Which reminds me, let's make sure we Faithfully Unite in Christmas Kindness (FUCK). Yes, let's all FUCK!
Good, I’ll terrorize magats all day
You’ve gotten two new security directives rolled into one statement: atheism (presumably just any belief that is anti-Christian; I have a feeling non-Christian beliefs won’t be counted) and anti-Capitalism (now considered a predictor for political violence).
I’m getting my 3 year old nephew two things now but nobody else is getting shit cause I ain’t buying anything else but food and seasonings for said food
I’m sitting on a mound of origami paper I’ve had forever, I’ll do handmade but that’s it
Political violence and corruption are up a bazillion percent, while prosecution of the most serious crimes is at an all-time low. Go, USA!
/s
Fake it till you make it, Donnie!
It's unironically worked for him his entire life.
I heard Ivanka had to get artificially inseminated because her body naturally rejected his sad and withered manhood.
you probably mean Ivana but I can't be certain because he's talked about wanting to fuck his daughter several times before
You really can't tell with these people.
Oh, that means you probably haven't seen this interview with her before. Just watch the first minute, that's all you need to really dispel any doubts you may have had. It really sucks to watch, even knowing how terrible of a person she is today.
Isn't he supposed to have an egg-shaped penis? Maybe I'm mixing him up with Harvey Weinstein.
His followers can't read or understand any actual financial literacy sources. So they just choose to believe what he says. Trump says Stocks are up...okay. Trump says prices are down...great. Why bother looking at the financial section of literally any newspaper when it's just going to lie to you and make your brain hurt because they hate dear leader?
trump immediately dropped talking about grocery/eggs after he won.
chocorations have been increased to 20grams!
Double plus good!
So he is doing exactly what they criticized Biden for doing only the middle and lower class are way worse off now. Nothing to see here folks stock market guuuud.
No, you paid $3 for it, so that makes it a three-dollar cookie mix.
But, yeah, prices are ridiculous, and our only option is to no pay it. Of course, for necessities, that's not an option.
I think it will get worse before it gets better, unemployment is rising, and we're on the brink of an economic collapse.
If prices are down why am I shoplifting more than ever?
Yeah, still $4+ here for eggs. Gas is up, but not drastically.
Unless you break it down to individual words, there isn't a single true thing in that entire post.
I paid ten bucks on sale for a couple turkey boobs. That's not a good price for that.
About the only true thing he said is stock market record highs. Unfortunately, most people aren't day traders and actually earn a wage to buy necessities so the ups and downs of the market in the short term are meaningless.
It doesn't feel much like it's hitting new highs. It feels like the dollar is hitting new lows.
Let's talk about tariffs. I bought a $6 hair clip on Amazon a couple days ago. Imagine my astonishment when the total came to $25. 🤯
The only thing somewhat saving me right now is unfortunately utilizing Amazon grocery delivery. I'm spending less because I'm not browsing the aisles and only getting the necessities.
Well, it is not that Donald is a regular visitor in any supermarket and would actually know what normal household goods actually cost.
He doesn't even know what groceries are. He's as dumb as a doorstopper.
A doorstop has a use
That is actually an insult to the doorstopper.
Eggs are what, 10$? That's nothing, we can afford more.
Don't say that, they'll believe you.
Lying liar lies.
Bananas are only $9.50 that's good right
Choco ration has been increased from 70 grams to 50 grams, double plus good!
So much easier when you can just cut out the middle man and make up the facts as you go
Someone saw his Amazon cart this morning on Prime Day.
Eggs and milk go bad, that pancake mix does not. (Within reason)
Holy shit you were fast, I took it down within seconds because I was just ranting.
It may not go bad. But it sure as hell doesn't taste good.
I think it didn't propagate to my instance right away, I see about 3 minute difference between our comments. I do the same thing though, I'm sure people have seen my random rants for similar reasons.
What's crazy is gas is still ~$3 around where I'm at. Inflation has gone up something like 22% over the last 4-5 years and gas is still pegged there.
I mean I get it, people flip out once it gets over $4, so I'm wondering what they're doing to keep it down. Maybe it's demand is low because people aren't doing as much but idk
When you complain about gas prices at 3 or 4 dollar, come visit us in Europe where the same amount costs about 8 dollars.
That is one of the main reasons why Europeans don't buy American cars.
The american car market has very few small economical models of car to buy anymore.
You're highlighting the point I'm making, how is America keeping gas prices low? I suspect the answer is fracking improvements.
Gas prices are one of the few pillars that would devastate the average American if they were to go up.
Gas prices really depend on where you live, some parts of the country do not have low prices. You are right though, supply is up because US oil production is as high as it has ever been in recent years and much of that is due to fracking. If it weren't for improvements in US oil production prices would definitely be significantly higher.
No, the answer is primarily taxes. In Europe, the damage to the environment is at least partially put into the gas prices in the form of taxes.
Eggs are still atrocity against vulnerable individuals.
There is so much to criticize Trump on...why make shit up?
Yeah, eggs are a terrible example. The sky high price last year wasn't because of inflation, it was because farms had to kill giant numbers of chickens due to the bird flu. If you take something like milk, it's more representative.
Cool, zoom out to what the price was before September
To add to the other reply, at one point we culled 52 million egg laying hens.
And people treat me weird when they find out I'm vegan.
But don't you want to start the day with fried fowl fetus? Part of a balanced diet
It's only a fetus if it's fertilized right? So it's more like fried fowl period!
sometimes you want to alliterate
Fair!
Want cheap eggs? Factory farming is the only way. Bird flu culls will forever make prices bounce around.
My wife and I are wanting to raise chickens, she has the experience and we have a solid hen house, just need fencing. My last vegan gf didn't like that idea, said it was still exploitative and hurt the chickens keeping them laying eggs. Gf before her had a couple of backyard chickens and they seemed happy and content, loved her. What are your thoughts?
I do not.
Eggs are down to like $3 a dozen where I live.
$6 if you want pasture organic ones.
Those prices were double a year ago.
I really don't know what anyone is smoking about these prices. Things seem entirely reasonable/cheap to me. But I never paid $1 for a dozen eggs I guess? Not sure where people live that eggs are that cheap. I can remember them being $2 a dozen, but that was a decade ago and gas was $3/gal back then too so it's actually cheaper now.
Coffee specifically is through the roof. Just 6 months ago a bag of New England Coffee was $5.99. Today that same bag of coffee is $11.69.
Bacon is $9 a pound. I'm straight up priced out of beef (not necessarily a bad thing).
Even my cat litter, Cedarific (wood based), this time last year was $6.99 a bag, and is now $8.99. I don't know how folks manage with the popular clay litters, they're almost $20 for a box. Fancy feast has gone from 69¢ a can to ¢98.
Why is store brand Pinesole $9 a bottle? It was on sale for $2.99 the other week and I bought 8 of them. Its now back up to $8.59. A Can of soup is $4 not on sale.
Olive oil is out of control, but a believe some of that is because of climate change.
I don't buy it often, but sometimes I'd pay the $5 for a Tony's chocolate bar for cookies. The price went up sometime in the last few months, and is now $6.99 and I just can't do it.
We just had to replace out car battery. The cheapest one was $180 at Walmart.
These are just the things I've noticed lately.
I buy single origin coffee. prices haven't risen for me in the 5 years i've been buying it. it's still $16-20 a bag. i've had a cat for 8 years and cat litter has always been $20 for 40lbs.
bacon for me is $6 a lb. again, not sure where you live or where you are buying it. That price has been relatively stable for me, but also I buy bacon like once every 4 months.
The only thing i've seen go up subtantially is meat and pre-packaged frozen meals. And the only legit massive inflation I've seen is restaurant prices. i can't go out to eat now for less than $50. My $20 in meat per week is probably now up to $30.
Lots of regional variation. Lots of prices are sticky (once a grocery store can clear it's shelves at $X*2 they aren't going to lower the prices). Lots of the comments are straight up rumor, impression, word of mouth, or deliberate propaganda.
The supply chain shake up continues to rattle the automotive industry. Chip shortages plague electronics stores and make newer phones, computers, and consoles either unaffordable or unavailable. Trump tariffs on imports like pasta and coffee are showing up on store shelves over time - you can get cheaper domestic products, but if you're buying Brand X, you won't miss the price spike.
Meanwhile, rent is still extravogant. College debt is still an albatross. Health care isn't getting any cheaper. And wages are still skating in the danger zone for cost of living.
I wouldn't call anything "cheap" right now, either. Especially not if you're financing a bunch of credit card debt.
True. It's also relative to your consumption patterns. If you are buying bottom self products and they go up from $2 to $3 that is a 50% increase. not so much if you are buying a $20 product that went up to 22. Also with gas... big difference if you drive a gas guzzler vs a hybrid. I barely notice gas prices changes because I fill up once a month or less and my car has a 10G tank, so a $1 price increase in gas is an extra $10 a month for me. I'm not buying 100 gallons of gas per month like some folks.
Personally... I paid off all my debts aggressively and I don't overspend. After college I paid down my $35K in debt aggressively. and it was gone by the time I was 26. I don't really empathize with people who load up on debt and then complain about it. i have no empathy for some low wage worker who decided to load up a credit card with $7000 to go traveling and then is struggling to make the payments... life isn't so hard if you don't overspend and budget. A lot of the people I've met recently... who are 'struggling' are spending 50% of their paycheck at bars/restaurants who absolutely refuse to be more responsible with their money. I also haven't purchased a new computer or a phone in like 5 years, because there is zero need for me to do so. I keep my stuff until it breaks. From my POV where I live.... most people are simple massively overspending. I know couples who have two cars they barely use and spend like 800/mo for them, but they INSIST they 'need' them and complain about how expensive they are... not to mention they are buying new iphones every other year... etc.
Auto prices are also declining this year. I'm going to buy a new car because they are going below MSRP again and the borrow rates are dropping. True that a year or two ago they were still going for above MSRP. My car is 10 years old and at this point I'd rather get a new one than start spending $1000s on repairs. But I'm also going to keep my payment to $300 or less and buy a basic small sedan in the 30K range and likely I can get a 35K car for 32K or less out the door. Not going to buy a 60K+ truck with 900 dollar payment that needs to be filled up every week for $100 and has 300/mo insurance payments on top of all that. No idea why people buy vehicles like that for commuting to an office, but a lot of people do.
If the people you interact with on a daily basis are people with 2 cars and an 800 dollar monthly payment on them, then that may explain why you think that. Hang out with people who work menial jobs. People who work in the back of kitchens, people who work a terrible retail job, people who actually are struggling. Then tell me that everyone is just overspending.
most people who work menial jobs in my city aren't living off that money. they are living off their parents while pursuing arts careers and they are doing menial jobs for spending money. for them being poor is a temporary lifestyle thing and a lot of them around 30 just go back to school and go enter the corporate workforce when it stops being 'cool' to be a tattooed barista making 10/hr. their struggle is entirely aesthetic. i know several people with computer science degrees who are also doing this... because they dont' want to work for 'the man'. like if you are 30 and you chose to be an artist and you are struggling because you refuse to work a full time job for the past decade.. that's not really legit struggle.
i live in the most expensive city in the country my many metrics. even menial jobs here pay quite well. janitorial work will easily get you 50K a year which may not be luxurious but will easily cover the basics.
as for the immigrants... they are living subsidized housing multiple people to a room. they make it work. They aren't eating out, they aren't traveling, they aren't buying expensive cars and whining about it. I actually regularly make donations to immigrants to supply them with computer equipment that my company has decomissioned.
I respect them, because that's how I grew up myself and it's why I live so well today. I don't respect people in their 30s who whine about how hard life is because they made self-indulgence choices. Teachers are underpaid for sure, but if you are only making 60K a year and you're spending 10K traveling ever summer and paying it back over the next year and never building savings... your 'poverty' is entirely your own choice.
Look. I don't know you as a person, but from what I see you really love to conflate your anecdotal experiences with facts. I hope one day you'll truly understand compassion. I don't think you're a bad person, but you seem misguided.
You don't have to empathize, even if that $7k is as often on medical bills or car repairs or business debts as vacations.
The point is that economic predators exist and plenty of people feel the crushing grip whether or not they're prudent with their meager savings. They notice that 50% jump in bottom rung prices and complain accordingly.
EVs have a baked in $7500 price hike. And - at least according to Edmunds in 2024 - the spread between new and used cars has never been larger, with used cars falling (pressed by high interest rates) while new cars continue to climb. At to the problem that we effectively don't have domestically produced compact cars anymore, and even the periodic modest decline in model price is eclipsed by the lack of economy type cars to purchase.
It's crazy that $32k is the low end of the market for a new car in this country. Overseas, you can find cars in the $10k range, with the ultra-compact and alternative vehicle markets gets as low as $2k.
In the US, it's hard to find a fucking bicycle for less than $2k anymore
My price barometer is flavored seltzer water. It's reliably been $4-5 for years. What has changed is the quantity. Pre-Covid that was the price for a 12 pack. After, it was the price for an 8 pack. Some brands have even gone down to 6 packs at that price point. That type of shrinkflation has happened to a lot of products.
Gas is down a lot. Eggs are not down as much as they should be but they are down a little bit.
Where is this mythical gas price drop? I’d like to buy there.
Anywhere that isn't the coast. I filled up for $2.50 recently. Yes, that's per gallon. Yes, in the USA. If youre paying more, its a state tax issue, not a supply issue.
This doesn’t match my experience and I’ve been traveling lately.
While it hasn't gone up a lot, it's been pretty flat this year, to suggest it went down a lot is a lie.
Ah not in the us? Fair
Obviously in the US.