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why is everything so expensive now?
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da joos
da strait of hormooz
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>>2878005
/thread
With jews you lose
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Because you are poor (and a low value male).

/thread
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Because you're a brokie.
Costs keep going up.
Assets keep going up.
Dividends keep going up.
But your brokie bucks just stagnate and get inflated away. You want to be allowed to receive living costs? You need a wife and a career. If you don't adopt a woman you have bad values and morals and don't deserve a job. If you aren't an employee and submit to the system then you don't deserve to live.
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>>2878003
Because you and other people are willing to pay for it.
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My wages rose tremendously between 2019 and 2023, from $11/hr to $23/hr, giving me the spending power to travel around the world as an American seasonal/temp wagie who works less than half the year. But then wages stopped rising, and now costs are fast catching up. It's debatable whether the next job I get in America will even pay $20/hr.

At the same time, the cost of travel continues to rise steadily in every aspect - hotels, restaurants and transport are all seeing price increases the world over, some of them quite drastic. Yes, I will be able to continue spending half the year or more overseas. But two things will change. A) I will avoid spending time in wealthier countries, and B) an annual earnings shortfall will begin eroding away my savings reserve.

One example of rising costs: a basic, barely appetizing chicken rice plate in a dirty Indian restaurant just cost me nearly $3. The chicken was leathery and full of bones, maybe 2 or 3 oz of meat total. With a food crisis predicted to hit South Asia over the near future, food prices will only continue to rise, and menus will be covered with new sticker prices.
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>>2878586
If you're eating meat in India, you're fucking up. There's a reason nobody eats meat there.
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>>2878003
You're not going to believe it, but it's actually Jews
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>>2878657
For me it was eggs, milk, peanuts, and protein powder that hard carried
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>>2878003
>average burger wondering why prices are going tits up
Man, the stocks market has way, way down to go. Thank god you retards are my counterpart.
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Test
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Because this is business class and you're too poor you pleb
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>>2878003
They printed over 50% of the money that has ever existed as a response to a flu that was 99.995% survivable.
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>>2878586
>travel around the world on $23/hour
HOW? I spend $35k on bare necessities (rent, utilities, etc)
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>>2878720
> I spend $35k on bare necessities (rent, utilities, etc)
Lol. Fat pampered retard.
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>>2878726
>rent $12k
>groceries 6k
>healthcare 6k
>utilities 5k
>car (insurance, gas, etc) 5k
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>>2878731
>rent $12k
rent is $800 a month even in the most expensive cities where you dont need a car
>groceries 6k
500 a month is a little high, should be 300
>healthcare 6k
cut this out completely if you're under 50 and healthy
>utilities 5k
so your rent is 1500? rent + util was 800 in nyc and seattle
>car (insurance, gas, etc) 5k
cut it out. also you're underestimating, it costs on average 1k a month to own a car

the most obvious thing you can do is cut healthcare. that gives you $6k a year. $6k alone is plenty to live an entire year in many countries.
but if you moved to a city with roommates and cut the car you would save another $13k while probably increasing your wage. go a little smarter on groceries and suddenly you're at $20k extra saved per year. You can live in any country in the world for an entire year with that $20k
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>2878738
>a bunch of retarded shit
lol not even worth the (you)
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jesus christ this is a random ass thursday
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>>2878739
stay poor and enslaved fat broke faggit
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>>2878003
twf you got home from a 6-country trip in mid-March :)
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>>2878731
My rent + utilities was $500 per month. Groceries, $300. But that arrangement is history. Fargomaxxing for those $500 studio apartments is worth considering.
>>2878738
Car ownership cost depends greatly on how long you own it (if you paid cash upfront). I bought a $3400 car and owned it for three years. Put roughly 60000 miles on it, say $7000 in gas, and spent about $3000 on repairs, maintenance, insurance, registration, etc. It wasn't a bargain, but the end cost was okay in my book, because I set it up as a camper and visited many American and Mexican states over those three years.
>in a big city, you don't need a car
You'd be surprised how long it can take to cover distances by bus in America. I left my brother's house in Raleigh looking to get to the airport. It was a very simple route. Hop on 11 outside the supermarket, ride it to the bus terminal, then hop on 100. Except it took me nearly three fucking hours to get to the airport, and I almost missed the check-in cutoff for my flight. Travel time by car? 17 minutes. There's a reason that most city bus riders in America are unemployed welfare collectors, people with all the time in the world.
>should be 300 (for groceries)
That's if you eat barely any meat. One slice of roast beef for day. You also have to eat a very repetitious diet to limit the number of groceries you buy and thus keep costs at that $300 mark. So that means three dinners of boiled broccoli and rotini in Prego tomato sauce with cheddar cheese. Otherwise stuff starts going bad (for a solo eater) and has to be thrown away.
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>>2879100
busses are never reliable in the usa but subways exist
ground beef is dirt cheap. was eating a lot of meat every day at $10 a day. true about repetition though
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>flight from Logan to Tokyo: $2400 ($3300 for nonstop)
>hotels in tokyo (2 weeks): $4k-$5k
>other costs: $2k-$3k
how do people afford this?
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>>2879207
>hotels in tokyo (2 weeks): $4k-$5k
>other costs: $2k-$3k
bait used to be believable. for two weeks? in tokyo? $4-5k will get you a roach infested motel 6 at best. Should be $9-12k for something livable. And other costs? Only $2-3k? What are you doing, sitting in the hotel all day? Should be another $15k at minimum.
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>>2879210
I just picked some random marriott
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>>2879219
>50k yen a night
>in tokyo
LOL. Imagine being this poor. That must be in the suburbs three hours away from tokyo.
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>>2879221
does being this bitter and angry make you feel better about yourself?
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>>2878738
>rent is $800 a month even in the most expensive cities where you dont need a car
LOOOOOOOOOOL
ban every nigga not from the west coast god damn.
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>>2879223
What are you talking about, brokie?
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>>2879121
So you just replace the fruits and veggies with meat in your diet? Or are you still buying stuff like asparagus, avocado, blueberries, etc. while also eating ground beef every day.
>>2879207
Doesn't Tokyo have cuckboxes, i.e. capsule hotels for poor tourists who never get laid to stay in?
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delta has started charging $60 to use overhead bins
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>>2879246
for fruits and vegetables just eat whatever is in season bro
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>>2879100
I live in fucking kansas and there aren't $500 studio apartments. Not that rent is that high, mine is like $950 for a 2 bedroom. But the studios are still near to $700.
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Unironically jews. Liberalism is a race to the bottom.
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>>2879207
Make more money anon.
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>>2878657
>doesn't eat butter chicken
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>>2882364
i make $140k a year and cant afford this
how do broke 20 year olds do it
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>>2882508
skill issue
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>>2882508
If you cannot afford it on $140k, you’re doing something very wrong.
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>>2882508
>how do broke 20 year olds do it
They don't. The age of the young shoestring backpacker is over, done, finished. I've traveled all across various Asian countries since 2023 and have seen very few backpacking wanderers traveling on a budget. Make no mistake, it's very much possible for poors to leave everything behind and set out across the world with a few thousand dollars to their name, but it's not the popular choice at this time among Western youths. One big change is, I think, that boomer parents are stingy as fuck. Older generations would give their kids spending money to go learn about cultures and experience the world, i.e. party and hookup in faraway places. Boomers, hell no. They only tell you to buy a car and get a job...
>and hey son, how about paying me $300/month in rent for your bedroom?
>Nothing's free in life, you hear?
>Nevermind all my capital gains which came without any effort of my own, nothing's gonna be free for YOU.
>You have to work in order to live, and you can't ever drop out of the commute & career life, or your future will be permanently ruined and you will be stuck living paycheck to paycheck working at Dollar General at age 50.
>Besides, I will basically disown you and stop talking to you if you decide, on your own volition, to waste your time and money on some stupid lark like world travel.
There are very few rebels among the younger Gen Z and alpha kids. They don't openly defy their parents or the system, they don't go through a counterculture phase; instead they passively submit to the system with muttered complains about the "day of the pillow" coming soon. Uniqueness to them is getting a tattoo (like everybody else) or a piercing (like everybody else), maybe dying their hair (like everybody else) as they take their good goyslave meds and go sullenly to their wagecuck job, where boomers bitch about their lifeless hateful Gen Z stare.

No travel or adventure for them. They're too mindbroken.
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>>2882545
If you talk about travel to them they think you're a multi-billionaire with 8 private jets just because you slow traveled through some shithole before
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>>2878003
I don't think there is any big city in the world where a flight would cost 1800€ rt from my home airport (FRA)
unless you want a really specific, high demand date maybe

>>2878003
>why is everything so expensive now?
long distance flights got maybe 100€/10k km flight distance more expensive due to kerosene prices
but you can still easily find deals
not as low as like 2023/24
but still

>>2879207
>flight FRA - NRT ~1000€ rt
>decent central hotel in e.g. chiyoda ward ~120€/n
>food and other cost ~60€/day
that's a very comfortable trip without worrying about spending too much

I get the feeling that you're either too stupid to travel
or you just want to complain you're too poor for some luxury stuff
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>>2882545
>but it's not the popular choice at this time among Western youths
it still is
just not your SEA anymore
that was only a short period in the 2010s

interrail exists and is more popular than ever
some hostel in Warsaw or Tirana isn't necessarily more expensive than one in Vietnam

Japan was also never a traditional backpacker destination

>Older generations would give their kids spending money to go learn about cultures and experience
i'm a (old) zoomer
and that's literally what still happens to most people my age I know
they get somewhere around 5-30k€ when turning 18 (or sometimes 19, 20, after their Bachelor etc.)
and it's explicitly money for fun

it's just that (You)r backpacking destinations aren't en vouge anymore...
Australia is probably still No.1
but after that destinations like SK, Indonesia, North Africa or european countries (again from an EU perspective) are more popular than Thailand / Vietnam
or if you ask your parents, South / Central America
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>>2882580
>they get somewhere around 5-30k€ when turning 18
This shit makes me feel displeased and sad for my parents who didn't/couldn't.

>>2882545
>and hey son, how about paying me $300/month in rent for your bedroom?
This is what I got hit with instead and somewhat after that went to live with my other parent.
Of course living with them was god awful and crushingly depressing as well.
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>>2878731
>car (insurance, gas, etc) 5k
Bro wtf kind of garbage high APR car loan did you sign yourself up for and how many miles do you drive a month?
>groceries 6k
unironically if you don't have a family of 4 or more you need to seriously stop doordashing every meal you fat fuck and learn how to cook
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>>2882607
5k is $417 a month
my car note is $300/mo. i think it's around 3%

6k is $500 a month or $115 per week
that isn't a lot in trump's america
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>>2882508
Social media is painting a very distorted picture in your head anon. Most 20 year olds are broke
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>>2882607
>5k for a car all in all per car
>garbage high APR car loan did you sign yourself up for and how many miles do you drive a month?
nta but what the fuck are you talking about
~420/month all in for a car is great (unless you don't use it)
a shitty used car will cost you 20-30cents/km
usually more towards the upper end which would be ~17k km per year



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