What changed since then?

No houses in the 60's were way cheaper then that

There were heaps to choose from as well and budget options

Jewish greed, monopoly laws not really being enforced, landlord greed, corporations buying up all the houses, many other factors mostly related to unchecked corporate and Jewish greed.

And yes, immigration causing labor and housing competition but that's also greed on behalf of employers wanting cheaper workers and banks wanting more asset buyers/loan takers.

EVERYBODY START BURDENMAXXING IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Start stealing and become a burden on society. First thing you should do is quit your worthless wagie job. Don't bother applying for benefits, welfare or any other government assistance unless you really can't help yourself. I personally prefer to also GHOSTMAXX, no properties in my name, no hand outs, no benefits, no taxes, just living in the shadows of society and outside of the system as much as I can, but I digress. Simply take everything you need from big corporations, resell it and enjoy life. Hit their jew warehouses and megastores and become an honest reseller. Make sure to post about it and encourage more people to become burdens like you. Once enough people do this, their system collapses. Also always remember how over half the population got vaxxed and sided with the government? make them pay and enjoy it too. This is how you get back at the jews, the governments, the corporations, the normie cattle and everybody else who wronged you.
youtube.com/watch?v=NTV2S2OtrfM

There is nothing more that jews and their wagie cattle fear than you anon taking a big fat shit on their jewified society, never forget that.

Being "paid more" exasperates the problem. Costs needs to be reduced.

This.

goyslop

capeshit

wow what an EPIC morning

Another chinese demoralization meme 5 gallons of sugar kek

Sell out
Hide under desk
Avoid looking outside the window to not turn into ashes
Teacher rolls in a tv and vhs tapes with holocaust training videos
Spend the rest of the days afraid of the soviets
Zog shoots and kill your president and blame soviets
Blow up twin towers start a massive regional and international wars while printing money endlessly
Die ab old boomer with lead poisoning to the brain while pushing casino buttons and screaming Jesus

an entry level job takes a month to buy a half oz of gold instead of a long weekend

Can you guess around what time we went off the gold standard?

Houses became speculative commodities. People own multiple homes and rent them now. Or corporations do the same. Even in the small town I live in, there's a real estate company that owns numerous houses and rents them out. The idea that something as essential as a house is out of reach for many, who must rent, is absurd. USA quality of life has gone to shit. The parasite passive wealth class need to hang

More and more money being printed causing more and more inflation which only became a thing when Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system in 1971 this caused the "stagflation" of the 1970's

Don't blame the wealthy for speculating on houses, blame the government for printing fake money that allows them to do that and establishing zoning laws which stops them from being punished for doing that.

Watched video. Based burdenmaxxers

Her husband probably earns 1k max per month.

Chances are if you take home 10k on today's money, you can probably fill up that cart and then some for 250 dollars.

1) Women entered the work force and reduced the salary of her husband and young men by 50%
2) We sent jobs overseas in the name of free trade globalism and lowered wages further
3) We increased immigration to prop up the economy and dilute wages further
4) And finally we started using H1B1 Visa's to reduce the cost of labor for the STEM field which was the last one still paying enough for this old lifestyle. Which is why everyone went after it. It was shilled so hard specifically to flood the market and reduce the cost of hiring them

Basically every single social issue has actually be an agenda to drive down the cost of hiring working men in America. And now most people can't raise a family

Astronomical government spending

the cold war ended
her husbands job got shipped to china/mexico
financial derivatives and insurance

Minimum wage increases

I have an old catalog from the 90s and a lot of stuff was more expensive, basically the same amount you'd pay now but not adjusted for inflation. Not food though of course.

retarded people being given 30 year, 97%+ LTV loans.

What brain drenched in lead does to mf

That's when we lowered taxes on the rich

portions were getting larger, cheaper, unhealthier (tastier) until the movie super size me came out.
after that fast food did a 180 and portions got smaller and health focused.

her husband's income wasn't $100k/yr

this. early 70s at the latest.
houses even in a small town weren't that cheap.
there was a housing bubble in 1980 although it was cut short due to double digit interest rates.
that is a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere and probably a hundred years ago.
that house is tiny and 1950s at the latest.
yes.
true but money-lending is also an issue.
Interest payments extract from the economy.
it's bullshit that inflation is caused purely by money supply. It is caused by more money but without a commensurate increase in production.
High interest rates made it more expensive for companies to purchase or store enough inventory to keep up with demand. easier to just raise prices.

a lot of farmland is owned by foreign investment companies who'll rent the house for an Air BNB and let the rest of fallow.
probably hoping there'll be mineral rights.
foreign ownership of land should be illegal in every country. There should also be residency requirements with the exception of ancestral land but even that limited to one generation.

there's more to it than fake money.
A person shouldn't be able to borrow against one property to finance another.
which seems to be norm these days

To make the equivalent of $100k in 1980 her husband would have had to have a salary of $25k.

More numbers:

Median family income in 1980 was $21k, adjusted for inflation that's $85.

The median family income in 2025 is $75k.

adjusted for inflation that's $85.

meant $85k of course

What changed since then?

Unrepentant breaking of the 10 Commandments by blood lineages that used to be Christian. The Commandments are now mocked and laughed at by most of these people, but God's rules are a safety barrier, not a restriction -- they're a safety barrier protecting us from behavior that brings us bad outcomes. But we've burst through that barrier en masse and unrepentantly, and now we're getting the bad outcomes. Unrepentant breaking of the 10 Commandments is why things are as they are and will only get exponentially worse from hereon in.

Wears the produce and meat? just all processed slop

In that time, see chart, basically things are the same, like 8-10% more expensive perhaps

it's the christian's fault, they aren't christian enough and need to be more moral

Meanwhile, jews are genociding an entire nation in real time and control all seats of power across all industries and run a literal cabal in the west. Mainstream media, entertainment media, news media, social media, alternative media, wall street, But, you see, it's the christians who are at fault, because jews are El's chosen are christians are not, so even without any power or ability to change anything, it is still their fault. This is because nothing can be the fault of the jews, who by their own admission, are greater than god (Elohim).

latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein19-story.html

I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

But I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.

$48,000 in 1975

that would be $286,211 today accounting for inflation, whereas most middle class houses where I live today are around $100-120k. seems sus.

if anyone's wondering

$20 in 1980 is $77 in 2025

$25,000 in 1980 is $80,525 in 2025

Hart Cellar act

When Muppet babies came on, that's when I got my cereal. When we had food :(

Wah wah wah wah i deserve everything for free waaaaah my only skill is crying on incel forums 14 hours per day waaaaah

$100-120k houses are working poor housing

That sounds about how it actually should be.
I wonder who is responsible for the shit we're dealing with now?

Where TF do you live? In a cabin in the woods of KY?

And here's another thread where you same incels are crying that mortgage rates are 6% when they were 22% in 1980

You act more entitled than niggersxand roasties

Worst things to happen in the US:

old shit:
cheap cotton
creation of the federal reserve
giving women the right to vote
end of segregation

newer shit:
going off the gold standard and opening up trade with China in the 70s
Reagan's amnesty
NAFTA
Getting China into the WTO
Letting jews replace American culture with jewish culture
Growth of the federal government creating a self perpetuating parasitical entity that controls US policy in order to sustain itself as it's no. 1 goal creating an environment where it's actually destroying the economy for everyone outside of it's sphere

Economics has too many variables for retarded humans to understand all at once

who is responsible for the shit we're dealing with now?

You 100%

it's nothing but goyslop

No wonder millennials are so fucked up, their parents fed them garbage.

nigga where do you live lol
im in a rural state with no economy and the appraisal of my house has gone from 300k 15 years ago to 700k today

Housing and food has completely outpaced inflation. They just stop recording things that get too pricy. Houses are not even counted in inflation.

That's interesting

How much a book cost now?

Interest rate doesn’t matter if the median price is within the range of the median wage, and the loan terms are for 5-15 years. It’s a red herring.

What changed since then?

the woman would be in a bar covered in shitty tattoos and glued to her stupid phone

rural state

Lmao, yeah that's what determines housing cist

Nothing. That's $800 of groceries and house is $1000000

That's the construction costs not the land. Location location location

hmm I wonder if there were any sorts of major societal changes forced upon western countries that could have contributed to this phenomenon

AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF LIVING
IN A SHOTGUN SHACK

Shieeeeet!
Im sowwry :(

Better than getting fucked in the ass by daddy like you spent your mornings.

He couldn't get a job just by walking in and shaking hands with the manager haha!!!

He can't afford a house on a store clerks salary haha!!!

Boomers deserve the pillow

Interest rate doesn’t matter if

Lmao at you idiot

The increase in incel crybabies who refuse to work?

Boomers cheer when they see videos of their grandchildren getting knocked out by niggers.

USSR was destroyed.
Subsidized capitalism in the USA ended.

Money

peasant class

This is why we're cutting you lose, you're just not compatible with civilized society because you'll always be a shitskin subhuman.

Legitimately sorry you had to grow up hungry, that's so hard on your soul as a kid

The increase in incel crybabies who refuse to work?

A large segment of the population refusing to work would drive wages UP, not down.

yes, infinite money printing and immigration
Kikes way of destroying it's host nation

Nope you just get replaced by your peers....niggers

While you cry on an incel blog like a worm

We're just living in the aftermath of her frivolity now. It's just the inevitable outcome of an entire civilization thinking that money printer can just go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for all eternity without consequences.
I swear both you gen x clowns and us millennial clowns are turning into even shittier remakes of boomers with this back in the days nostalgia goggles garbage.

hell yeah i love frosted flakes its a shame she eats corn flakes like a bitch

says the peruvian nigger arguing foreign politics on a foreign website. NHH

This kiked shit hole is a fucking joke

Cry more incel lmao that's your life a worm of inaction

all of that shit looks fucking huge lmao, im not sure ive ever seen a box of cereal that big

It actually changed in 1971, she bought this shit when everything was on the slow decline already

2pbp.. and a Canadian

Peak sovl

That's a kit, not a house. Doesn't even include land. You can still buy kits today but they aren't as nice as that one. They are about $30K and maybe half the size of that one, but one story.

$776 for house

lol
lmao

That house would cost 425k today, in the midwest. Over a million in more populated areas.

Inflation plus a larger population

That's from a Sears catalog. Might be from before WW2.

That box of corn flakes is fucking HUGE

The wealthy started getting greedy, and turned home ownership into a business, and grocery stores into supermarkets.

That's also when America started shipping all of its jobs to third world countries.

Gaming nostalgia nerds are particularly insufferable.

funny money is funny

60s

Parents of milinials

You have never been accused of being smart, have you?

just to clarify an ounce of gold was defined under the spanish dollar system as 20 dollars which was written into us law

now you pay over 3000 fed notes for it, so a silver dollar of silver dollar times is roughly 150 fed notes

the rich keep hording and investing. And yes that is bad.

Every currency not in the hands of working population every curency not spend buying food, cars, furniter is a minus endeavor. Every bought stuff is a multiple jobs. The job of money is to change hands from buttom going up and when reaching the government to be redistributed again to the bottom. Basic economics.

But you want to be all rich you all horde money, especially the rich. You keep listening to lies of Wallstreet bankers that just want to justifie there existence and secure there own wealth.

And no investing in US bonds or investing in us company's throu stock markets is not helping or else you would not be where you are now.

Buy buy buy is what keeps a economy running not sit on money and count it. US the gov should have a long time ago make everything above 2000 $ a a week taxed by 90% to redistribute it.

But then you got rampant US corruption in government that prevents it.

posting the cost of things like this is meaningless without including the average wage

your right, who wants to sit on 50 dollars a week for the rets of his life while everything gets more expensive.....

$2391, but still very cheap

Did people actually used to pack grocery carts like absolute sociopaths or is this maybe a gay and?

They where a new invention back then. They did not know better. Also propaganda, look shity communist east how bad you got it look at us filfty rich westerners.

But if you think about them I mean 1950 a loaf of bread was costing 1 money as it did in 1980
In the west it did cost 1950 05 money and ended up on 3 money 1980.

Figures....

I just watched wizard of oz for the first time, and boy, did people sure have low expectations at the time

3 bedroom house

1 shitter

And it's upstairs
Why were boomers so scared of bathrooms? When I was house hunting I saw so many nice older homes but they were like 3 or 4 bedroom with 1 bathroom in the entire house. Cmon guys.
I bought a 3 bed, 2 bath place and it's nice.

This is more likely the 40s or 50s

"Well anon, maybe you should cut out every luxury, hobby and pleasure from your life, pull yourself up from your bootstraps working 80+ hours a week and only spend on basic necessities you wouldn't be complaining about this"

Kek all of the items are positioned so you can tell what the label says... Look at how the bottle of soda is balanced on the edge. This is clearly just an ad. Good try though

That "house" gets dropped off as materials by a semi onto a plot of land that you provide. You then have to build it. I don't believe that a foundation was included, either.

oh you sweeet summer child. You live so far away from reality it hurts. You simply cant fathom the redscare of that era.

Bathroom on the second floor made sure the toilet flushed

America really was just poor people happy to get colorful curtains and snacks

Or you are just making random schizo connections that don't exist for attention from anonymous losers...

Are all those things in the cart just copypasted into there? The scale doesn't look right and they seem to be floating instead of actually up against each other.

Nah child, your just a disconnected child that has never lived throu anything in your life. You feel, you dont think and you feel your center of universe knowing it all. Keep up your ignorance it makes you easy to manipulate.

Regan. then Bush Then Trump. then Trump again.

Child you is a child because my child... Learn to speak faggot

Actual inflation, holding the 'basket of goods' constant reached 17.5% under Biden

Imagine scooping up the smelliest dumbest peasants of Germany, making a little town for them, and gifting them colorful soaps and doughnuts

Is everyone in this thread retarded?

The statistic we need specifically is median wages plus benefits minus tax adjusted for inflation. Yes, inflation is le bad, but you still need to adjust for inflation to get an accurate figure.

I guess Jews aren't compatible with western civilization despite claiming to be so.

haha peasants lose their money after we printed money out of thin air in a high trust society.

haha everyone around me is now brown, stupid and low impulse control like me.

If it makes you feel any better about it half of the dregs we wanted to put on the boat to America never left the old world. That we exported our worst genetic material is something the old world should actually feel guilty about. But in actuality it's a christian thing to spread bad genes all over the place like this. Because it's the same axiology liberals and leftists have anyway. Every life matters you know. Everyone can get to chase a dream and some elusive platonic true world paradise utopia somewhere and feel purposeful somehow. Like the so called American dream.
You know I'm bad seed myself. A porn addicted, insomniac, guilt ridden, socially toxic, caffienated sperg born to overaged parents who first met each other at a psych ward they were both interned at. It's not that I want everyone else to feel as useless and despicable as I will probably always feel about myself. Plenty of people in today's world still deserve to feel great about themselves. Plenty of American's and old worlders alike. But plenty others still don't. Myself included.
I'm only an antinatalist against myself. I only take responsibility for my own defectiveness. I am not interfering in how clown world wants to be clown world anymore. Let clown world run it's curse and eventually overdose on it's own stupidity and die from itself.

gen x,

I hope you and your kind rot in the most unholy of Infernos

No you are. You want to delude yourself into thinking planned obsolescence is valuable.

Trump is going to give us all hotels and McDonald’s and dolls and spending money

This makes sick at my stomach to see.

My grandma would tell me interest rates were sky high then

wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Yeah many of them and many millennials deserve an eternity with the boomers there. All three really do deserve each other.
t. self hating millennial

They were. But they never really decreased since. Just periodically flatline if you look at the finer print to then incrementally rise more and more (relative to the factors they have put in place to try and supress the real numbers since the 1980s) until we get to the shit we're in now.

Boomers are objectively the most piece of shit generation of kikes to ever walk the Earth

A digit.

What changed since then

People stopped getting mocked for food stamps. The niggers were given food stamps welfare housing without telling them lazy fucking jungle bunnies to fucking work.

average annual salary $800

god damn youre dumb

Who raised them or rather never took the responsibility to?
Boomers are both victims of narcissistic abuse and narcissistic abusers themselves in turn all at once. That's how it usually goes. It's a cycle. Generation X and Millennials have not broken that cycle either generally speaking from what I can tell.
There are still some good people who happen to belong to either of these three generations (four or five if you count the Boomers own parent generations).

Boomers were raised by the television set and corporate media in general.

The really toxic shit didn't get added until sometime in the 90s when the fat craze kicked off and they started adding synthetic ingredients like Olestra to food. There were obviously sketchy artificial dyes but it wasn't like the Frankenstein food we have today. Ironically it was when congress started going after the tobacco companies and they spread their tendrils into all of our processed food companies. Before that you could eat mountains of the same shit we eat now and stay thin.

Hello, is this iqpajeet?

Imagine living in a time period where you might be paid in physical silver dollars and could buy a top of the line muscle car for a few thousand bucks. Even if you made $2 an hour the intrinsic value of a silver dollar is $30-40 so you were technically pulling in a director salary as a low level laborer. The feminists, commies, pro immigration republicans and the federal reserve fucked us all with no lube.

Her wage was also $0 so it all checks out.

Or by the state on top of media like over here.

Nixon may have permanently fucked us. If Trump can somehow take us off the fiat system, deport illegals, and revoke our status as a global reserve currency we might have a chance. People act like what I'm saying is impossible but if executive actions can put us in this mess then executive actions can get us out. We're right at the tail end of a failed experiment.

wow a muscle car to go with my cardboard house full of canned beef, thank you papa

So what happens when the peasants become bored of their lollipops and propeller beanies

kek

brominated vegetable oil

cyclamate

Red 2 and 3

paraformaldehyde

PFAS

your food was laced with shit and so is your brain.

goyslop and property prices raised proportionally since then, unlike the wages.

So about 130 ounces of gold or 430k in todays goybucks.

Many from Nixons sphere fell in with Trump later. Roger Stone for example. The GOP is still the party of Eisenhower. And Trump is not an outsider. His own supreme court picks shuts down some of his EO:s. Thats by design and Trump is in on it.
Trump is worse than the left in some ways. He is also not as bad as the left in other ways. Thats what you are going to get as long as you keep voting and legitimizing the system. A mixed of all the things you loathe along with some bones thrown your way as well. Thats Trump.

planned obsolescence is gay, I just think that inaccurate statistics are also gay

And this time Trump is not just throwing bones granted. He is throwing some red meat your way now. But as I said. Its still a mixed bag. Not just Trump. Every president is. Even Biden was a mixed bag. They all are. Politics is both more gray and nuanced all at once than many people seem to think.

That stuff was genuinely wholesome once.
The adult babies at reddit just had to go and ruin it for everyone else.

Brown immigrants.

Then what are you trying to prove? Did I misread you? I thought the graph you posted attempted to prove that the economy is somehow not shit ever since the 1970s just because wages have steadily increased relative to and in tact with quantity of product (any product mind you no matter how objectively shit). So which is it?

smash-and-grab burglars

The list grows longer yet.

1980 is the 60's

Never been accused of being literate, eh?

Product size then vs. Product size now. Cart size did not change.

location is not a real thing.

land in north dakota cost the same as it does in manhattan ny.

Early 80's clothing and hairstyle. Pic is real. Price for groceries is real. Her husband bought the house in the late 60's early 70's so $25,000 home price is also real.
Boomers, just Boomer things.

Governments, (US, state, city, and county) are taxing its citizens and businesses at confiscatory rates -- increasing current taxes & creating new taxes. There is absolutely no incentive for governments to control themselves.

Governments, thru thier agents in the media, blame corporate 'greed' for you 'low' wages and the smoothbrains fall for this same trick over and over demanding a higher minimum wage.

minimum wage goes up and so does the percentage for the government. You make 'more' money and government raises rates again....

the cycle repeats and repeats until market collapse.

We learned to stop carbmaxxing for one. Holy shit

t. Hood nigger

This is concise. It's called the Cantillion Effect and Ron Paul warned us all, but no one listened.

Notice the #10 size tin can of Hawaiian Punch. Notice the glass bottles and paper packaging. The window on the pasta box was cellophane made from plant fibers, no plastic touching any of that food.
It's not just what they put in the food that changed. It's also what they put the food into.

Inflation, you can thank having pensions for it

This nigger lives around other niggers.

decide it's not sustainable

convert it into paper money

the chutzpah of a neonazi flag suggesting it was OUR decision

Globohomo's origin story:

once upon a time the world has been peaceful and harmonious, then came along a snakeoil merchant

the snakeoil merchant has sent ahead an ostensibly filthy-rich bait to a village

the bait very publically flaunted his shinies and pitched worthless magic paper to the villagers

the villagers sought out the snakeoil merchant, willing to trade their everything for worhless magic paper

a week later, after realizing that its worthless magic paper they couldn't use anywhere else, they returned to the merchant to trade it back

the snakeoil merchant told them that he would be a fool to trade back all the resources for the original prices, as there are so few resources in comparison to the volumes of worthless magic paper now in circulation

villagers involved legal authority which told them to fuck off, because the trades were legal -- the merchant didn't lie, the bait did and the villagers didn't bother asking the merchant or reading the fineprint

the snakeoil merchant showed "mercy" and allowed the villagers to burrow the resources against a fee and interest paid with the worthless magic paper

[fast forward] the village is bankrupt and indebted, everyone's at each other throat having scammed each other out of their worthless magic paper to pay their own fees

the merchant once again showed "mercy" and offered them a deal: if they assume the role of the bait and spread the good word of the worthless magic paper in other villages they'll be allowed to stay in their homes and toil their fields

[fast forward] the merchant is now considered the sovereign, writing the laws and ruling over terminally indebted and blackmailed royality and common folk alike, all the while canonizing the most prolific baits as prophets and whatnot

[fast forward] (You)'re here.

In short: BRR!nter go BRR!.

Money != currency. Money is a vacuous commodity, that is valueed in itself in roundabout ways -- through its supply controlled by a select few private hands and through the demand, created artificially (and in utter defiance of sound economy) by sophists that are paid with it. If you will the only real currency left is influence. It's the one thing that has enabled the many criminal industries to endure every conceivable crisis. Warmongers, child-traffickers, corrupt cleptocrats and so on, all sustain themselves om influence. Money is just the intermeditary between them and (You). Money isn't even physically printed or digitially generated (probably not even tabulated at all) anymore. It is merely 'assumed to exist' in the past(debt), the present(credit) and the future(interest) in whatever volumes necessary to incentivize, if not outright to control your behaviour. You are provided worthless magic paper, of which there always simultanousely exists too much, too little and none at all, in exchange for your labor, your sweat, your tears and your lifetime, and you pay interest with your future and your dignity -- while those who provide it to you still barter with goods, services and favors like mankind has done since time immemorial.
You are sold shoddily designed, terminally and purposely obsolescent devices and hyperprocessed, inedible slop that are produced at surplus and destined for a landfill. Corporations slash your wages, cut corners and work you into a burnout, because they run on loans, floating an inch above bankruptcy at all times, and have to scam you out of your loans to pay their own interest and debt. Just like you and everyone else, too, they are fighting an uphill battle against unconditional and non-negotiable "number go up!" and the incessant, albeit only proverbial at this point, BRR! of printers.
(cont.)

Resources are shuffled across the world in what amounts to supranational Communism, to fuel "national" Capitalism -- the consensus cracking apparatus that's selling you merchandize and bombards you with advertisments.

It's one grand pyramid scheme run by bait-people, who LARP as bureaucrats of incorporated labor camps, for their owners: snakeoil merchants.

Those who shill Crypto (or the "economic" theories of "Capitalism" and "Communism") are effectively shilling a solution that's none, to people who don't even know that they have a problem, whilst still being stuck in globohomo's convoluted cinematographic universe themselves.
There's no fixing a system whose foundation is rotten to its core. No matter what you may implement, unless you audit the banks and assign tardwranglers to the people running them, there's no hope for any theory -- much less another faux currency. There's not much of an economy left, anon.
People are selling problems and renting out metastizing shortterm solutions (smaller, dressed up problems). Why? Because the longer any given problem exists, the more interest and debt are generated. Imagine a world in which there existed durable, high quality devices and food that's not just nutritional blanks coated in industrial waste, and medicine that cures disease. How could you hope to keep up the illusion of value? How could you justify the abundance of worthless magic paper, if the shelves weren't full of garabage only produced to scam and bought due to constant suggestion and parasocial pressure.

People believe money to be valueable, because they believe it to represent the goods they buy with it -- in a sense they are correct: the bare minimally viable product that they have to get coerced to buy and use is a great representation. The past +300yrs of social misengineering and botched eugenics have successfully created a sub-species of mindlessly consuming drones to whom quality (need/purpose) is an utterly foreign concept.
(cont)

In short, for example: in order for you to be "outraged" about "tariffs", you have to be ignorant of the past 5yrs of reckless BRR!nting and blatant, yet legal fraud. In order for you to be "outraged" about the past 5yrs of reckless BRR!nting, you have to be blissfully ignorant of the past +120yrs of perpetual proxy war waged to expand the BRR!nting. In order for you to be "outraged" about the past +120yrs of perpetual proxy war, you have to be blissfully ignorant of the past +300 years of social misengineering and botched eugenics. (...).

Your "outrage" is performative and your helplessness is learned. You are suffering through a tried and tested protocol of pest control -- you and me, and most everyone around you are the pests.

Whenever the pyramid scheme of debt trembles under the weight of nepotism and plain incompetence, and debtcattle starts noticing the fraud and is threatening to revert back to agentic, sentient human beings, hunger, disease and war are rolled out in quick succession -- in some regions of the world, those lacking meaningful infrastructure and playthings, they are rolled out all at once. I digress.
(cont.)

Ask yourself: why do people now care about a banker's pet retconning the abysmal state of the world "economy" with retarded tariffs or any other [current year/thing] LARP, but not about the past five years -- when the system has been run into the ground without the slightest pretense of moderation, other than likewise retarded LARPs starting in 2019? Because they fundamentally do not understand the system that defines their lives. They react to stimuli like terminally domesticated debtcattle. Their contemplation and retrospection stops every single time at the

I've been scammed!

it never progresses to

Why did I believe the lies, why didn't I pay attention?

Believe it or not, but by considering and calling this a feat of learned helplessness is an expression of the sliver of faith in mankind I've managed to retain.

So, debtcattle-kun, what's your gameplan going forwards? Will you continue to subscribe to and peddle [current thing] in [current year], or will you turn your life around and become part of the change the world is in dire need of?

Nah, probably dead from smoking a carton of Virginia Slims every week.

A lot like the UK then.

The US imported over 150 Million illegals since 1980

This makes sick at my stomach to see.

Why is every other post in Engrish?