The purchasing power of the US dollar has gone to shit since I was born. What the fuck.
>>532850836Debt is going exponential now, in less than 10 years it'll be 85+. This country won't survive that long though.
>>532850836its going to get worse. They are going to have to keep printing more money to pay for the ballooning deficit spending. In the future you will need 2 million dollars for a Big Mac.
>>532850836This is bullshit.In 99' i was 15 working as a construction gopher for $8/hr and could afford a 1bdr apt.saying inflation is "this number" when food and housing have doubled multiple times is bullshit.
>>532851067I remember seeing this picture in a history book when I was a kid in school. I remember the teacher telling us that in Weimar Germany, the Germans had to resort to burning their money to keep warm as their money had become worthless. At the time I couldn't understand how their money could become so abundant yet useless that they could set it on fire.Today, I understand, but I wish I didn't.
>>532850836Bullshit. Gas was around 50 cents a gallon, now it's $5. That's 10 fucking folds.
>>532850836>inflationnot my problem
>>532850836Prices are up way more than that since covid.
>>532850836So you are a 21yo newfag.
>>532850836It's a little more complicated than just a linear increase in dollar amount across all productsLike for example you might spend $1000+ on a computer in 1995But you're not gonna spend $2000 on one today unless you have specific need for a really high performance machineCommodities increase or decrease in value on an individual basis
