Everyone is talking past eachother on this.
YES inflation is COMPLETELY out of control and wages are still YEARS behind. A big Mac combo should NOT be $10. An 1800 sqft house with near zero yard should not be $350k an hour from the city.
AT THE SAME TIME unless you're disabled, you shouldn't be getting food delivered. Cancel that subscription for your own good. It doubles the cost of each meal and enables you. Makes you eat out more because the perceived convenience.
Things are harder than they've been in a very long time. But it also feels like so many people under 30 have already given up and don't even TRY to budget. I'm sure for every person truly watching their budget there's 3 more going an extra $1000+ a month in debt from reckless spending.
There are MULTIPLE important issues that MUST be addressed like Immigration, taxation, fraud, greedy corporations, outsourcing etc before it even really matters to start addressing the money illiteratacy epidemic though.
Mexicans will call you a gay pussy if you dont drink beer and then they turn around and turn their beer into a fucking spicy candy soup and start licking and sucking red40 chamoy off the fucking can
Of course that’s your contention. You’re a first-year grad student. You just got finished watching some Jordan propaganda documentary, probably The Last Dance, and now you’re convinced nobody will ever touch him. That’s gonna last until next month when you actually start looking at the numbers, then you’re gonna be talking about LeBron leading both teams in every major stat in the 2016 Finals and coming back from 3-1 against a 73-win Warriors team. Then next year you’re gonna be in here regurgitating longevity stats, talking about 40,000 points, being elite for over 20 years, eight straight Finals appearances, and carrying absolute roster disasters to June every season. You’re gonna realize the greatest player ever isn’t just about highlights and sneakers it’s about being the best overall basketball player for the longest period of time, and nobody in NBA history checks every box like LeBron James.