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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, 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.

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/...

What does the last two years of that graph indicate?

That Biden/Harris lost because they let inflation get out of control for a fairly short amount of time?

Gah. Maybe that people should stop eating out so much.

Well it would be one thing if it were an inevitable natural conclusion. But working people are getting poorer because the owner class is hoarding wealth. It’s simply unjust. It’s the difference between losing your house to a hurricane and having someone burn it down.

Seems kind of silly to pretend it won’t happen though. Especially since we’ve chosen to base social status on wealth.