Inflation roughly averages 8% over the last couple years. The price of milk has gone up 300%. These are not the same.
To be fair, milk specifically should cost a lot more than it does because our dairy agricultural system is disgustingly abusive to cattle.
It's also heavily subsidized
They’re subsidized heavily which keeps consumer costs down, but not sure why that should also lead to abusing treatment
is disgustingly abusive to cattle.
Also to humans. I am pretty sure there is no minimum wage law in dairy in the US.
I don't have receipts to prove it but I don't think the price of milk has changed all that much. I just got a gallon for like $2.70. Earliest receipt I can find is from Feb of last year and I actually paid a bit more.
You're describing the poverty trap. Its very real. I'm wealthy now as well, but I remember a time when I took the subway 90 mins round trip to my job, and the fare cost almost an hour's pay. So I'd put in 9.5 hours to work an 8 hour shift and my takehome pay was for 7 hours.
Yea, the grind is becoming impossible though. My old man worked a summer job and could afford university all year on that.
After joining the military for the GI Bill, finishing that commitment, I worked in IT to keep us afloat while my wife went to university.
I left at 5AM for work, worked as much OT as I could, after work instead of sitting in traffic or stuffing on the train like sardines I studied, did all my IT certs, and left work at 7pm. The weekends I worked a second job doing IT. All through university I worked IT on nights and weekends.
The grind you have to do to reach "middle" class is becoming: come from money to afford college, or go into debt for life for uni, or work nonstop always.
How can people take care of kids, family?
Yeah, but the temptation to burn the place down is really smoldering.
Spend less, encourage others to do the same.
Spend less? As in just eat less food?
To be fair most people could reduce their intake by half or more no problem.
Are you surviving off of peanut butter sandwiches? Or have you gotten DoorDash™ recently?
Because there's no middle ground?
He mentioned quantity of food, I mentioned quality.
You don't have to eat less if you're eating food that is overpriced or using scam services like doordash. Just buy more-affordable food and cook your own meals.
But some people think they're "too good" for that and try to conflate needs with wants. I assume you're one of them but won't admit it.
You know what they say when you assume...
I've never ordered DoorDash in my life.
Oh yeah, but you're probably one of the people who conflates needs with wants.
What else am I "probably?" I mean actually asking me would be a waste of time- and don't do it now, it's too late.
I rest my case.
Your evidence-free case made by just guessing about someone based on two very short replies on an internet forum? I'm glad you're resting it because you're making yourself sound like a fool.
You're right, my bad. You're not one of the people who conflates needs with wants.
You're also not flustered because I called it out.
Sorry.
Wtf is that? Yer just trolling at this point.
The country I live in at least pretends to respect worker right so no DoorDash. And if I wanted to eat cheap I wouldn't go for peanut butter sandwiches. But rather like lentils, rice, beans, potatoes. Which, you know what? I do.