Isn't it funny how "inflation" affects different goods and services so differently, and the ones that get most expensive are things that are already overpriced? It's almost as if it's more about price gouging than currency depreciation :thonk:
Its all the things that are "inelastic" goods, or as I like to call them 'life goods.' The things that you can't live without are unobtainable.
This is the definition of "treats" in case anyone is still curious. That's the only freedom Americans have - the freedom to consume treats.
You know what else I find interesting. I've recently seen arguments against cheaper medicine because "the US subsidizes the entire world, that's why they get to have insuling for $8 and we pay $100." But I thought you didn't want to pay for other people's problems, so why are you okay with paying for the whole world :agony-shivering:
Doesn't even work that way for most profits in America anymore. Profits from pharma because of the way American corporate taxes work are given mostly out as bonuses, buying other companies, and dividends.
Long gone since places like IBM had even 10% of their profits folded back into research and development. Why would they? With regulatory capture of the CDC something like half of all pharma research is now subsidized by taxpayers via grants or directly through state/federal institutions. Similar in other industries. Want to know how oil/gas companies received 100's of billions in loans/grants over the years?
Bernie couldn't even stop the DNC from rat fucking him on running on a winning message of making healthcare and medicine free.
I mean it was basically asking capitalism if it wanted to save itself from the consequences of the misery it creates and the elites said "naw I'll pass"
This is why "uplifting news" about life extending technologies that always seem to be around the corner don't uplift me.
If :porky-happy: does this to insulin, why wouldn't :porky-happy: do this to life extending technology?
China or India creates generics and sells it for a fraction of the price.
I love how the inventor(s?) of insulin sold the patent for peanuts as a gift to the world and capitalism was like "don't mind if I do!" and proved to the world what rapacious ratfuckers they are.
Like damn it's a great indictment
graph trickery making "housing" seem like it's not as bad as it is since it's below "wages" when in reality theres a meteoric difference between average wages and the cost of housing
wdym? going from $7/hour to $11/hour surely makes up for the cost of a shitty house going from $400k to $700k. just gotta eat less avocado toast
It continues to astonish me that avocado toast has become the symbol for excess of millenials. How is wanting to eat bread and vegetables considered to be a luxury?
Not your average vegetable, mind you:
Avocado trees bear one of the most resource-intensive fruits under wide cultivation, with each avocado fruit requiring 70 litres (18 US gallons; 15 imperial gallons) of water to grow
Also:
As a subtropical species, avocados need a climate without frost and with little wind. High winds reduce the humidity, dehydrate the flowers, and affect pollination. When even a mild frost occurs, premature fruit drop may occur
... in the midst of our current ongoing man-made mass-extinction, many of those foods we grow that are highly vulnerable to early frost / unstable weather (which, I suspect, is most of them) will go the way of the dodo, for some of them possibly as soon as the upcoming decade.
Plus an avocado is like a dollar. How many good breakfasts can you get with a vegetable on them for like a 1.10$?
Maybe if you buy them on the side of the road. Most grocery stores avocados are like more than double that. But they are really talking about avocado toast from like a café or breakfast chain, like with lattés 10 years prior
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Parents got me $800 of insulin from Mexico. It's a solid 3 month supply. The same amount in the US is ~1 months worth
Biiiiiig doubt on "software" being cheaper. What with software as a service, DLC and MTX in video games, which now seem to cost $80 standard.
Might depend on their method, whether it is just cost of retail software, or the cost of software developed for commercial use.
I think it's mostly because of inflation. The price per unit of games has only gone up about 10-20$ over the last thirty years, but the dollar is worth a lot less.
This isn't urbanism related but I'm letting it stand because this insulin graph is evidence of the pure evil of the U.S.
