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Originally Posted by Joe C.
Inflation never ceases. It's always been there. You notice it more when your income doesn't keep pace with it.
The more people handle an item before you purchase it, the more expensive it becomes.
Remember when bread was 15 cents a loaf? That's when the hourly wage was about 75 cents an hour.  |
From my experience, there is very little chance the average working person, with an 8% increase in salary, can even maintain their standard of living from 2021 to 2022. Rent in Sarasota has increased 25.77 percent. In December of 2020 fuel per gallon average was 2.14 a gallon. December of 2022 $3.04 a gallon.