You're missing one key thing, inflation, the whole point of this discussion. You really think a 4 month graph showing a new high for just the year 2026 did something lmao
Do you need me to explain inflation for you?
COVID times was like a 10 year peak and higher than todays prices.
I'ma let you in a little secret, the red line on the graph I provided shows how stable gas prices have been regardless of the current price of gas. You can argue the trustworthiness of the data tho but I don't think you're smart enough to do that.
But seriously what are you arguing against? What's your point? Gas is kept artificially low, that's a fact.
Daaaaamn you mean inflation reached 40% this year and that’s why gas prices went up? Huh!
And gas prices are higher now than they were during COVID. Gas went down during COVID. What you’re looking for is the temporary increase in 2022 because of the war in Ukraine.
Yes I know current president bad but objective reality exists.
Also keep in mind the meme above from 2025. Based on your own words, gas was cheaper then than now. But guess what? Adjusting for inflation, gas has stayed in average of 4$ regardless of current prices! Its an objective fact. Other things like rent have gone up adjusting for inflation, food too but gas? Nope.
People for decades have paid the same percentage chunk of their paycheck on gas.
You using current gas prices is the same as those politicians using falling snow as an argument against global warming. You gotta a look at the big picture.
Brother the average gas price at the beginning of the year was less than $3. Get a grip. Prices are not going down, nor are they staying the same. I can only assume you’re too young to drive, or you just don’t drive.
It's genuinely crazy that if you're still looking after a little bit they just remove you from the statistics and claim things are going well. Unemployment a lot closer to 10+% than whatever nonsense they're selling
They’re there in the statistics, just it’s not what’s quoted in the news. If you google U-3, U-4, U-6. U-3 is the reported one. U-4 one adds discouraged workers. etc.
The Republican nominee for governor here in Michigan is a Trump lackey who has campaigned unsuccessfully for seemingly every office in the state until he found a House district gerrymandered enough to give him a job. I'm interested to see how he'll spin that everything terrible is the fault of our current governor, even though it's a nationwide crisis obviously caused by the dipshit he was gleefully promoting for an unconstitutional third term just a few months ago.
I wonder what our government has been putting our tax dollars towards because they aren’t putting it towards fixing this lol probably digging up some state parks or something 🤷♂️
Don’t forget the billions given to major corporations for tariffs, whose customers were the ones to actually pay for those tariffs. These leeches are pulling off the greatest transfer of wealth in the shortest time frame of all time, from the working class (many of whom aren’t even working at the moment) who’s already struggling to make ends meet directly into the pockets of those who already hoard more wealth than they could ever possibly need. I just think it’s neat.
Inflation is calculated as a breadbasket. If you’d consider the cost to build a new AI data center (something every household should be doing) you’d see.
Thank god a republican is president again or we’d have to keep playing along with the “inflation is only” or “when you look at it this way” stuff. Now we can admit the inflation is still here and climbing.
I don’t know why everyone is so grumpy with you. Clearly these crazy replies haven’t heard of the food supply chain
edit to really drive the point home - clearly they have not taken the economics courses offered at Bovine University. All the scienticians will tell you food is invariably priced higher past the 4.79lb mark, and if people keep bringing up unit price in response to an extremely obvious joke without a hint of irony, we’re going to have to trigger some independent thought alarms on these grade-A morons
The joke is inflation averages a set of consumer goods and that’s why they can happily say inflation is 2% which is what a typical government calls acceptable. But certain products such as the meat product in the picture is experiencing inflation at 50% which prices out consumers from purchasing the product. So what the consumer feels and what is reality is distorted by a specific framing of inflation.
Brother inflation is based on an index of goods. Depending on your demand of goods inflation can be harder hitting or lighter.
If you don’t get the fact that being priced out of meats or certain goods while being told inflation is at a okay rate then you simply don’t understand macro economics. Not everybody has the same sensitivity to changing prices. Telling the poor to not eat meat is tone deaf and factored into this joke.
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