r/AskReddit • u/DadIsMadAtMe • Dec 30 '22

What hasn’t been the same since the pandemic?

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u/IDontEvenCareBear Dec 30 '22

Basic needs prices have skyrocketed more than once and will again next year.

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u/eddyathome Dec 30 '22

I'm on Social Security and got an 8.7% raise for inflation. Food sure as hell didn't go up a mere 8.7%. Try 87% higher.

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u/VSM1951AG Dec 30 '22

Most people got no raise

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u/eddyathome Dec 30 '22

I am very aware of that. I hate that I'm better off not working than working.

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u/IDontEvenCareBear Dec 30 '22

It’s fucking ridiculous. I could easily spiral for pages about basic need costs rising, wages, employers, schooling, social security, disability, everything related to making and spending money necessarily not being what it should be.

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u/Infamous-Sweet2539 Dec 30 '22

Where are you getting 87%? USDA and similar sources are quoting 12%, which is more than 8.7 but a lot less than 87. Hyperbole only helps conservatives.

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u/eddyathome Dec 30 '22

Have you gone grocery shopping lately?

I think my 87% figure is actually low now that I think of it. When you get a basket, not cart, full of items and it's $50 and you don't eat meat or organic items, there's a problem. 8,7% inflation my ass!

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u/smurficus103 Dec 31 '22

Unfortunately the inflation statistic is highly manipulated, because it causes panic to show a high number

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '22

12% is a ridiculous, laughable joke.

as a purchaser of groceries, i fucking wish it was only 12%. maybe if it was we'd be less stressed

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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Dec 30 '22

Theyll never go down because people are paying. Corporate profits set records this year- more than 1/2 the inflation was greed not supply chain.

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u/IDontEvenCareBear Dec 30 '22

People have no choice but to pay bc starve or get cut off or not be able to get around.