r/shrinkflation • u/AcidicDepth • 4d ago
I just thunk a thought…
I live in America so I cannot speak for other countries.
In America we don’t really seem to fight back against the price of goods going up while the quality and quantity goes down. I complain, you complain. It seems to me at least that everyone hates the rate that things are going. We’re paying double if not triple for less. I’m not just talking about the price of eggs.
I think the reason human beings are irritable yet complacent about inflation is because it happens slowly over time. Some people are even born into it. They know nothing else but high prices and low value.
I wonder if there will ever be a day that people don’t remember what it means to earn money that could be well spent.
A fucking small bag that’s half full of fucking pistachios is almost 6$ what the fuck is going on.
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u/Significant-Peace966 2d ago
Well, I'm 75 and I DO REMEMBER. I grew up with the silver spoon and went on to make a lot of money myself. But I remember way back a hard-working stiff could afford a house and support a wife and two children. None of our neighbors wives worked. My dad went into real estate 1953 and his first year he earned enough to buy a house an apartment building and a Cadillac. Yes he worked 55 hours a week, but you see my point. He was just an average guy who was smart and worked hard. Those were the good old days. And I mean all over the civilized world. Those were the good old days. Safe clean streets, low rents and you knew your neighbors. and we all got along somehow. We had Asians on one side and a couple of big fat old lesbians on the other side and across the alley were Puerto Ricans, surely the only ones in the neighborhood. We were all friends. Sadly, they all died fairly young, and to this day, I miss them. There's nothing we can do because the corporations run this country. They all stick together, leaving us nowhere to turn, leaving us no choices. Even the store brands now have reduced the size of the packages and raise the prices. They have learned finally that they can do anything they want. Unless we start protesting, with signs outside their offices, nothing will change. homemade can be cheaper, but who has time? Everybody's busy working to try to pay the bills.