I presume you don’t live in the US because lol. Living is more expensive than ever before in history but shit like phones and TVs cheap yay?
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tmp0730@programming.dev 8 months agotmp07 In the US? Yes. Absolutely.
Traister101@lemmy.today 8 months ago
MNByChoice@midwest.social 8 months ago
50 years ago was 1975. Inflation, depend on the month was between 6.9% and 11.8%. (cpiinflationcalculator.com/1975-cpi-inflation-uni…)
A random comparison of costs. (amerititle.com/…/1975-vs-2025-traveling-back-in-t…) Mortgage rates are down from 1975 levels. Another random site (www.1970sflashback.com/1975/ECONOMY.asp)
Is everyone better off? No, Homeless people in both years had a hard life.
Does any of this invalidate what you said? Nope. This is for other people.
btaf45@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What happened was everything went up 10x in price.