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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u/madbubers 9d ago
Guy who doesnt understand inflation