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US Inflation

LaserJay
Not to stir up the hornets nest... but this inflation is wild.
The Consumer Price Index has gone up so much it is insane. (CPI is basically the calculation for the spending power of a US dollar.)

I highly recommend going and calculating your income from the beginning of 2021 vs what it should be now due to inflation.
Here is an example of what that would look like. I used $35 per hour because I thought that was probably a good square number that is reasonable for a programmers salary.



Here is the link to the calculator from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

Rant over sorry guys lol
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  • The US has existed for ~250 years. If you tally up all of the money that has EVER been printed by the US Government, over 40% of that was printed during the pandemic.

    The economy never should have shut down. The people that shut us down violated our civil rights and then intentionally created massive inflation to cover for it/pacify us with $1200 checks as well as BILLIONS upon BILLIONS in loans. Your average Joe (who has been intentionally de-educated over the past 40 years) was happy to sit on their behind and collect free money (not having the ability to understand that his great-grand kids will be paying for it while they speak Chinese)

    I was all for the initial "2 weeks to slow the spread" thing. It made sense. Everything shuts down, except for bare essentials, for 2 week and everyone just avoids everyone. After 2 weeks, open it all up and treat everything like it's a really bad cold & flu season. That was what some of the European countries did and it worked. Though those countries didn't weaponize covid for political purposes.
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  • The US has existed for ~250 years. If you tally up all of the money that has EVER been printed by the US Government, over 40% of that was printed during the pandemic.

    The economy never should have shut down. The people that shut us down violated our civil rights and then intentionally created massive inflation to cover for it/pacify us with $1200 checks as well as BILLIONS upon BILLIONS in loans. Your average Joe (who has been intentionally de-educated over the past 40 years) was happy to sit on their behind and collect free money (not having the ability to understand that his great-grand kids will be paying for it while they speak Chinese)

    I was all for the initial "2 weeks to slow the spread" thing. It made sense. Everything shuts down, except for bare essentials, for 2 week and everyone just avoids everyone. After 2 weeks, open it all up and treat everything like it's a really bad cold & flu season. That was what some of the European countries did and it worked. Though those countries didn't weaponize covid for political purposes.
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