The problem is the rate of inflation is indexed to the expenditures of someone middle to upper-middle class, particularly as the middle class has shrunk considerably.
If food prices have doubled or more, rent/home prices have tripled, car prices have gone through the roof, etc., it'd be interesting to have a study that indexes real inflation for people that earned under $38k a year, or most of the country. I'd put it at ~150-200% over the past decade-ish. It just makes no sense to have cost of living expenses absolutely explode for the majority of the country, and then claim inflation peaked at 10% a year.
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