I wonder, could it be because prices of everything except gasoline have jumped 60% in the past 2-3 years for no real reason?
Be fair. Gasoline and an hour’s work.
Alcohol still costs the same. At least at Walmart. I can still get the same ~$12 handle of bottle shelf vodka or ~$20 30 rack of natty ice like I did back in college. I could still get Mc doubles and Mcchickens for $1 back then. They’ve over doubles in price, but beer is still the same. Sustenance through beer is enlightenment out of the rat race.
An easier way to say it is:
When you’re half dead and need to be fed: liquid bread!
Chairs
I’ve seen some alcohol go up a fair bit… a bog Jim Beam pint used to be $9 around Denver and now is $11-14 at many places, and a lousy half pint of Vidal Sassoon or whatever (oh, Paul Masson) went from $4 to $6. Depends on the state and the store though I guess.
Denver is a pretty bad place to compare alcohol prices price, but even still, that is so much less than everything else.
It’s because of avocado toast according to boomers (definitely not because of wealth inequality and the top 200 net worth individuals owning 30% of all American wealth and squeezing the living shit out of the middle class)
What else can it be?
The economy is doing great!
*Gestures to increased fossil fuels productiona and billionaires doubling their wealth
Obviously everything is fine!
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Doesn’t help that even great credit scores give cards that have a rate of 17%+. That’s insane. It shouldn’t be a surprise since the CC companies want us in debt so they make money. I mean. Duh.
One of my credit cards offered me a 0% deal for a year. I used it to have work done on my house. Why WOULDN’T I carry that balance for a year and pay it off?
Because it’s pending exposure.
Now if you found a way to turn around and earn interest or earn extra with that money…now you’re cooking with gas. Just make sure the earnings are worth the relative risk, and that you hedge against that risk.
