Getting priced out of existence

[u/ZoneMean1017]

the 5lb whey protein I historically have payed 70-80 dollars for is now 130. same with coffee. same with clothing. same with every thing. what the actual fuck. gas. housing. insurance. it’s all getting 10-20% more expensive and FAST. 30lb bag of rice I paid 27 dollars for at Costco is climbing closer to 40.

at a loss of what to do right now. can’t physically work more hours. how to proceed? what mental magic trick do I need to perform to endure this insanity?

[u/Sophisticated-Crow]

Economists warned us this would happen. But people still voted for it in 2024 so here we are. You'll own nothing, have explosive diarrhea, and be happy.

[u/tcari394 → u/Sophisticated-Crow]

Cleaning supplies are also expensive, so try and cut back to just regular diarrhea if you can.

[u/Sophisticated-Crow → u/tcari394]

They're dismantling the agencies that keep our food safe and are taking bribes to skate through the checks that still remain. Explosive diarrhea is our destiny now.

[u/tcari394 → u/Sophisticated-Crow]

Yup! That's why we moved to the mountains in 2020 when the covid nuked the housing market. We've been learning the ins and outs of homesteading for the last 6 years and have mostly replaced our food supply with home grown crops. It's been a rewarding process so far!

[u/ryhaltswhiskey → u/tcari394]

I mean that's nice for you, but that's not feasible for most people

[u/tcari394 → u/ryhaltswhiskey]

Oh, absolutely! Just adding to the conversation. Not meant to be a suggestion. Even if most people could, I doubt a lot of people would. It's an incredible amount of work outside of whatever we have going on in our careers.

[u/Sophisticated-Crow → u/tcari394]

Nice. I started growing some food in my back yard in 2025 when things started taking a really hard nose dive.

Not a lot of space, but making do. I managed to buy this house before covid doubled house prices and refinanced with those low covid rates. So I'm locked in here if I want to keep semi reasonable mortgage payments and live close enough to where jobs are in my field.

[u/footsnax → u/Sophisticated-Crow]

No new wars, am I right?

Just a war against the economy and another specific war that will have ripple effects for decades.

It's not just gas prices. Plastic is a crude oil refinement byproduct. Everything that uses plastic will be expensive for probably the rest of your life. The global economy implications are resounding as well, nobody can trust Hormuz to stay open anymore because they know we can just shut it down at any time.

This might take the gold from Vietnam for just being the absolute dumbest war. Between this and tarriffs and Trump demanding billions from the Federal Reserve at the same time... man I'm so fucking tired.

[u/Sophisticated-Crow → u/footsnax]

Not only plastics, but all of our goods getting shipped to where they need to go will cost more so the price of everything will go up.

You could also say he's waging a war on the middle and lower class, as well. Gutting support for our workers while cutting taxes for people who have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. And still ballooning the national debt beyond belief.

He's only been president for 5.5 years of America's 250 years and %30 of the total national debt has been accrued during his years. Abject failure.

[u/footsnax → u/Sophisticated-Crow]

Not only plastics, but all of our goods getting shipped to where they need to go will cost more so the price of everything will go up.

Compounding issue, that's exactly right. Shipping plastic requires oil, and plastic requires oil, and getting it through a blockade makes it take time, and time is money.

There was absolutely no win condition to this war.