You seem like the kind person who, if firefighters rescued you from a burning building, would be pissed at them for not preventing the fire in the first place.

Disagree with me how? The inflation rate has objectively decreased from last year and the year prior. That doesn’t mean prices have gone down, just that they’re going up now at a rate closer to the historical average over the past century. People absolutely can afford less now than 3 years ago after inflation spiked, but with it returning to average levels, wages are also starting to catch up more.

These are all general population trends also, and can’t be used to describe or predict any one person’s situation

That’s because the inflation already happened. What you’re complaining about is that there isn’t any deflation.

You have to remember: Inflation tells you how fast prices are increasing. We want a certain degree of inflation (typically around 2% is healthy for the economy). The problem occurs when inflation is too high, so that wages don’t keep up, that’s what we’re seeing now. When inflation decreases, that means prices are growing less fast, not that they’re decreasing.

Decreasing prices (across the board) would be deflation, which is terrible (think Great Depression / 1930’s Germany terrible). If your 100$ is worth more tomorrow than it is today, then why would you spend it today? You wouldn’t (except for necessities). That leads to a massive drop in investments, not only in the “Wall street” sense, but in things like building houses, building factories, hiring people etc. it also causes wages to decrease. This goes on until production and wages hit a low point where there’s huge amounts of money in circulation, very low production/employment, and very low prices. That’s when you get a whiplash to a situation where everyone has money to buy stuff, but no one is making it, aaaaand we have HyperInflation™

In short: Your 100$ has in fact never been worth less than now, and that’s a good thing. We just want it to decrease in value more slowly, and things are going in the right direction. It could still take a year or two for wages to catch back up, but we’ll get there. Current policies are helping the situation.

And you think the President, any of them control that?

I don’t have faith in either side not to be bought up.

Apologist swine

What about the honourable people that do not gouge

You don’t think they are worth anything

But I do

Fuck this hypercapitalistic mindsetting

“Nothing will fundamentally change”

Well, it’s not quite fair comparing a pick up price to a delivery price either, but here’s what I’ll do… When I go out today I’ll get you the menu price at the drive through and the app price with pickup and delivery.

Exact same meal, for delivery, through the official BK app is the same price. Fees make a minor difference, it actually comes out to be slightly more expensive than GrubHub.

vs. $13.18 for picking it up myself.

Even without delivery fees, $16 for Burger King is bullshit.

It’s not just the delivery fees, it’s the markup of the food. It used to be that you paid the same menu prices for delivery or pickup, and the only additional fee was the tip for the delivery driver if you didn’t pick it up yourself.

Here we have the food being significantly marked up (a Whopper meal is usually ~$8 dollars depending on where you are, not $18), on top of a delivery fee, on top of platform fee, on top of a delivery tip.

To some extent, sometimes the capitalist meat grinder of work, commuting, lack of time for self-care, parenting expectations, mental health struggles, etc. etc. means people have exactly zero energy left to leave the house after getting home (esp. if there’s no one to stay home with the kids so it means herding tired kids into the car), let alone cooking something up if there wasn’t a recent grocery order and all the easy stuff has been eaten.

Jesus, I feel exhausted just typing out the hypothetical.

We tax wealth so little. Even some tax wouldn’t be worth the move. We’re just so bought & sold the idea of actually making people who aren’t poor pay their dues is frightening.

Big Grape would never allow a wrath tax

And even then, all the rich folks will just move out of the country.

Mission Accomplished.

It’s not even a start. You should be able to criticize ineffective or inconsequential actions that are clearly made to assure the public that something is being done without actually accomplishing anything without someone calling it “a start”.

To be clear, while my tone here could easily be interpreted as aggressive towards you, I don’t meant it to be that way. It’s nice to think that maybe someone in the government actually wants to help the average worker and is actually willing to stand up to our capitalists but it simply isn’t the case. Our government officials not only profit from the capitalist we are asking the to limit but they often are those very capitalist.