It's not inflation. It's price gouging.

tbh both inflation numbers are hot

The inflation report that came out today specifically omits fuel and grocery prices because those are "volatile" categories. My grocery bill is double what it was two years ago and has been for six months. I wouldn't call that volatile.

In some ways, the reported inflation is real. The main increase in cost is not actually real, or caused by anything except greed.

There's also a lot of hidden costs that aren't factored into inflation as strongly as they should be, or at all. Those hidden fees have also gone up.

So the entire business segment is just hand waving the whole issue because they know it will be reported wrong; they're going to keep raising prices and point to the "official" inflation numbers and continue to feed us the bullshit that inflation isn't a problem to justify never giving their employees a raise.

IDK how stupid they think we are, but I'm sure they think we're little more than retarded (I mean that in the clinical sense). They're (very publically) showing massive profit numbers, using inflation, or the lack thereof, to justify slave wages, while ripping off their users as much as they think that they can without creating riots.

More for them, less for us. As it's always been.

My country's news say we're improving with a straight face. And I'm like "improving in what? Making the country sink more efficiently?"

I wish my country's government had the testacles to cap prices on food. I order food mostly online and I compared prices from 2 years ago and most things are at least 200% more expensive, cheese for example is like 600% though.

Yuck

Feels like everything is too expensive these days. Rent now takes more than 1/3rd of my income and I'm trying out different foods so that I can save on groceries. Hell, I don't drive anymore if I can avoid it. Shit is getting rough out here.

Well, thing is, some product categories probably aren’t suffering the same price hikes as groceries, fuel and rent. Stuff like cable and internet, clothing and office supplies are probably bringing the average down (please tell me if they’re having inflation, I pulled these categories out of my butt).

The only happy inflation for me is the one in my pants. This image does it