For a $15 sandwich lunch, the drink should be a beer. Or the sandwich should be ponderously super loaded. And the chips bag should be one of those midsize deals not the little bag kind.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440218)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440217)

I forgot to tip the lady who cut my dogs hair. She was FURIOUS about it too. She slammed the little half-door they use to keep dogs separated and she walked off and didnt even acknowledge my thanks.

As I was in the parking lot, I realized that I hadn't tipped and that was why she was so mad. Service people need their tips this time of year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440227)

It was my last meal allowed before my colonoscopy so i wanted to have a big sandwich and what I got was disappointing and over priced.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440234)

the cold italian gabagool sandwiches there aren’t bad imo though also overpriced

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440485)

No way electronics have returned to normal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440287)

i said prices on a few things, such as cars and electronics, have have had prices recovered and are now around* what they they would have been in 2024 under normal/high inflation. but that shit like food, which we should expect to recover, has remained high and the rapid inflation seems to be permanent and not transitory due to COVID supply chain issues.

*i wouldn't be surprised if cars and such were still higher than normal. the point of my comment was that it's shocking so many things have remained high while others have recovered somewhat. you're autistically latching onto me saying "normal", but all i was saying is "some prices have come down but it's insane that essentials like food have remained high."

retard. stay pumo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440311)

the government didn't double the money supply, so it doesn't make sense that things would double. also, if it was just the money supply, than inflation on everything would be at about the same rate, and it hasn't been.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440384)

you're just used to the fact that we had near zero inflation for basically the entire 20 year period after we became aware of the world around 12 or 13 until 2020. the current situation is in no way unprecedented and there have been much worse periods of inflation in recent history

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440568)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

we've only been doing macroeconomics in a reliable way for the past 100ish years. before that prices shifted mostly because of wars, shortages, new discoveries, etc.

the great depression, stagflation, 80s, ITE, etc. saw prices and wages see a return to normal fairly quickly. inflated prices today seem very sticky. it's not normal for prices to inflate so much and then stay there without an equilibrium in increase wage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440614)

what are you talking about "examples"? you're just basically saying "the vibes are like off this time, man". inflation in the 70s and 80s was statistically massively worse than it currently is and for an incredibly long period of time.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440689)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440780)

i am coming at this from with the assumption that inflated prices, not mitigated by increases in wages, is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and that the cost of essential spending as a percentage of income will remain high.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=76967

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-income-ratio/

so, i guess we don't know what will happen in the future. but it doesn't seem like much is being done to address it. and i don't see what could will happen to bring spending on essentials as a % of income down over the next few years.

otoh things looked pretty bad after ITE too. you're right, i am essentially saying "the vibes are different this time, man." but that "feeling" is based on what i perceive as the causes and lack of action in addressing them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440811)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48440409)

mission dogs are $10 now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48443566)

the day before, I'd read that Trader Joe's was litigating against their longstanding supplier for selling them literal "shit in a box" -- chicken patties full of giant bones

we can't have nice things anymore

what am I supposed to eat? a $15 estrogen burrito from chipotle?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5648365&forum_id=2...id.#48443571)