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[–] ptc075@feddit.online 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure there's numbers & graphs that tell the story, but it's hard to really convey just how much purchasing power we've lost. Things like owning a home & having kids with only a single income - yeah, that was normal. And now it's gone.

My personal example is I was able to buy a new car in the 90s fresh out of college. Today, I'm making more money than ever, and yet somehow a new car just isn't an option. I've been priced out of the market. And it's like that for... everything.

And yet, somehow my government tells me inflation is fine.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the thing that always gets me is how fucking expensive food has become, i distinctly remember cheeseburgers costing 10 SEK (roughly 1 USD) when i was in school, now just 10 years later it's DOUBLE THE FUCKING PRICE

it's- i have no words, "insane" doesn't even come close to describing how much it fills me with bile.
Following inflation the cost should be 13 SEK now, but that's what i scoffed at them increasing it to years ago!

[–] themoken@startrek.website 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So much defeatism! You can still get a house like that for cheap. Just cut out the avocado toast, ask Mom for a six figure loan, then find a gem property in the local airport flight path, next to a slaughterhouse, an AI data center, built on reclaimed landfill, and across the state highway from a pet sematary. You can get it for under a million easy!

That's what I did, and I'm living the dream. My reanimated dog gets sick every time he drinks from the oily puddles of blood and liquid fat that bubble from the ground constantly, but I did it, I own a home!

[–] redlightdistrict@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Lol very well written! Thank you for the laughs

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Peg was hot and wanted to get it on too

Al is a sexy ass man. I'm with her.

[–] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

And he always complained about it and was nauseated by her.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't remember him being referred to as fat. Especially not with the literal tons of fat women he insulted at his job.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You literally used literally literally.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

By the liter.

[–] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

He was just a dad bod. Before we had those words for it.

[–] untorquer@quokk.au 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could also but amphetamines over the counter.

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] untorquer@quokk.au 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah they took them out of cold medicine around 2004 (US). Officially it was out if fear people were using it to create meth.

You could also buy energy pills aimed at long haul truckers, I think they were called yellow jackets.