By Petr Navovy | Videos | September 4, 2024 |
By Petr Navovy | Videos | September 4, 2024 |
I think it’s around the time when supermarkets started to put baby formula under lock and key that something really started to seem off with the ‘cost of living crisis’ (help, excuse me, imagine trying to explain that concept to a hyper-evolved, post-scarcity alien species touching down on Earth for the first time in their search for enlightened cosmic buddies). Never mind all the waffle about ‘inflation’ this or ‘supply chain’ that, as has been pointed out countless times, the stratospheric increases in the cost of often everyday, essential goods has been because of one main factor: Good old-fashioned greed. Shareholder profit. Rampant profiteering under the guise of ‘uwu, poor widdle billion dollar businesses, how can we possibwy expect to maintain infinite unprecedented gwowth if we don’t force single mothers to shopwift life essential baby formula—anyway, it’s not us, it’s the inflation!’
According to website Talking Retail, these were some of the biggest price increases in the half-decade period leading up to 2024: 1. Olive oil (113.8% price increase), 2. Baked beans (70.5%), 3. Still mineral water (67.7%), 4. Granulated white sugar (67.6%), 5. Plain biscuits (66.6%). But it’s okay, the wealth of the five richest individuals in the world has doubled since 2020. The system is working as intended.
Anyway, here’s the lad from Fairbairn Films summing up what it feels like to buy anything in 2024: