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Rob (c137)'s avatar

Inflation has been climbing since the real estate boom, when houses more than doubled.

How come this wasn't a big deal when it was happening?

Instead people bitch about gas and food, but housing takes more than half our budgets!

A good example, my father bought a multi family house in the 80s for 80k while he made 8 an hour.

Today the same job pays 25 per hour but the house is 900k

Wages went up 3x, housing went up more than 10x

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/us-corporations-boost-profits-crushing-price-hikes-blamed-inflation

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CK_'s avatar

Here's another very bleak article on UBI and Central Bank Digital Currency. The author basically concludes that only god can save us now. If you have a choice between compliance/eating and resisitance/starving to death, then 99.999% of us will give in:

http://www.zephaniah.eu/index_htm_files/The%20Online%20Chokechain%20of%20Financial%20Control%20is%20About%20to%20Go%20Live.pdf

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