I'm struggling to find numbers because Google has been enshittified and will only show me local rental advertising, but, like, if I understand this the cost of food, since Biden took office, is up like 20%, and rent is up ~30%, medicine and childcare are still totally unaffordable, and everything else is much more expensive. Meanwhile wages are up like, idk, 20$ a week or something.

Cause, this all adds up to me as people are drastically poorer than they were four years ago, but the economics perverts on bsky insist people should kiss Biden's shoes because wages are up 4.3% and "The ecnonomy is good."

Can someone help with numbers I don't know how to convince a liberal that people need to eat food or they'll die.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    2 months ago

    I've kept track of purchases for about 10 years. Where I am, in the past 5 years, bread is up roughly 30%, milk is up maybe 10%, and eggs are up closer to 60%.

    Wages here have increased somewhat, but that's not true everywhere.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 months ago

      All the Democrats crying that people betrayed them over the price of eggs are so disconnected. Eggs are a cheap source of good quality protein, easy to digest. They require almost no skill to prepare. They require little time to repair, meaning you can get them on plates when you have to get kids on busses and get to work. There's a lot of reasons why eggs are important and dismissing them as trivial is very "let them eat brioche!" Energy. Apparently per-capita egg consumption is at 284 a year.

      Like I don't think that a lot of, at least online democrats, really understand how bad and widespread food insecurity is in the us. Their complaints about people being "wrong about the economy" show a deep disconnect. They think the economy is stonks, not how many hours of labor does it take to feed my family and pay rent.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 months ago

        It is difficult for me to imagine what “democracy” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True democracy can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society democracy can exist for real and not on paper.

      • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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        2 months ago

        I looked and it seems like egg prices spiked the most in 6/7 of the swing states from 2022-2023:

        https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/egg-prices-by-state

        The data source is a paywalled business insider article, but it's got an archive link

        granted it's a website run by like 1 guy with a secondhand source (BI is citing an Instacart study) but if it's accurate it means that 3 of the top 10 states for egg prices are swing states (Nevada, Arizona, Georgia) , and if you look at inflation per dozen eggs per state Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are also in the top 10. All of those states also have low minimum wages (Arizona's an outlier at like 13 bucks but every other swing state, it's $10 or the federal minimum).