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An interesting thing to add to the chart would be illegal drugs. The price of food, rent, and education has continued to rise. Yet the price of illegal drugs has decreased over the past decade while the purity has increased significantly. They want people to be numb to their enslavement.

#inflation #economics

chart from AdrianCercenia on X.

Globe99 3d ago

The other way of looking at this outside of the sort of conspiratorial lens of the sidebar comments is that, the stuff that's actually beat inflation is the stuff where there are (a) little to no government subsidies (b) little to no regulation and (c) little to no government-backed loan programs.

To connect with the content about "essential" vs "bread and circuses", what it really reflects is the fact that the things like college, medicine and housing are considered "essentials" for living, and thus become the target of regulations in the way that TV's aren't.

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thoughtcrimeboss 3d ago

🤔 these are very good points. Not everything is necessarily a conspiracy, and drugs are a free market for the most part.

Although now that I'm thinking about it flooding the country with cheap drugs so that many Americans become unfit for the military would be a good strategy for China. I think that deaths among military age men increased signficantly during the worst of the surge in opiates.

I think China allows or allowed fentanyl precursor chemicals to be exported but not sold domestically. But that wouldn't explain the other drugs.

Globe99 3d ago

BTW here is the origin of that chart, albeit data from a few years ago:

https://fee.org/articles/why-large-screen-tvs-are-affordable-and-health-care-is-not/