The purpose of a system is what it does. Inflation isn't just temporarily malfunctioning - it's a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

2.7% for the rich, they don't care what the serfs eat

If you take the timeframe between these two photos and apply a monthly inflation rate of 2.7, you would land at 70,5$ for August 2025. Now obviously either the inflation was higher in some month in between, or the vendor just hiked the price. But the general drift is correct.

Eh, 49 + 2.7 = 76 ; close enough

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That’s right . . . Big smile . . . Eeeeverybody’s happy . . .

Grow your own food.

Start supporting your local animal farms and find yourself a butcher.

It’s time to become self dependent and we are in a unique period of time where we have the knowledge and material to do it on an individual and hopefully local level.

A lot of people already do this, just not the ones in your circle!

As much as it fun to rag on supposedly out of touch economists, this "cheapflation" phenomenon is very documented and accepted among mainstream economists. Like many others in the public sector, government economists have been calling for more suitable and timely measures of inflation for decades, only to have their requests for more funding and support denied as the public service falls apart.

Price discounts and cheapflation during the post-pandemic inflation surge - ScienceDirect - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304393224000977