This is the first article I’ve seen in the mainstream press showing that the inflation numbers are just lies.

Those numbers are also inaccurate regarding shelter, too: owners’ equivalent rent is basically garbage, and that’s 25% of CPI.

But hey, TVs are cheaper (because they are now fucking loaded with spyware!).

We can easily afford it, and because we can we haven’t changed what we buy much in the past three years; it’s therefore trivial to see that prices are much, much higher. What cost us $100 three years ago is now closer to $300. Hotel rooms that three years ago would’ve been $150 are now $260. Etc.

Inflation numbers have always been dubious but now they are purely fictional.