in the US, the areas with the worst cost increases are usually the areas the govt has interfered the most.. healthcare, college, housing are 3 examples.
2026-06-16 12:51:54
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Chance Gibby :
1 hour don’t get you anything. This video has to be HIGHLY misleading
2026-06-11 10:59:03
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Imnomoon🌒 :
i have never thrown away a t shirt because it had coffee on it 💀 who the f would, maybe throw it in the wash sure. I'm literally wearing mine until they have holes everywhere
2026-06-30 04:53:42
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Christlike Atheist 🔶 :
Because some things should not be for profit.
2026-06-14 12:34:00
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Joseph Ostashev :
Sorry food is not cheaper it’s more expensive.
2026-06-16 11:19:30
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DEUS :
"Life has never been objectively better yet subjectively worse"
2026-06-16 03:22:04
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bluejay0181 :
This is absolute BS. I remember when I was a child, $100 would have completely heaped over a shopping cart with groceries. Today, $100 barely lines the bottom of a shopping cart with groceries.
2026-06-16 17:44:21
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user9439855396523 :
This is not correct
2026-06-11 17:22:54
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Child of grace :
No... not at all.. an hour of work does not get you any of that. A year of light, a flight across the Atlantic, and a thousand books...
2026-06-18 20:03:50
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TheGreatAbyss :
You need to factor in environmental costs to truly understand real price. borrowing against the future
2026-06-30 15:23:44
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Spaid Crystals :
I can fly across the Atlantic for $20? Where and how again?
2026-06-16 04:21:58
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Mr.Teimm :
I’m a minimalist by nature. I have not gone cloths shopping in roughly 10 years. I’ve been wearing the same belt for 20 years. It’s amazing how long genuin leather will last
2026-06-11 19:03:08
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Dan :
this is basic economics, folks. currency only represents the goods and services we trade with them. the world still technically functions under a barter system. make sure you pick your career wisely, and that it brings value to society.
2026-06-17 13:33:04
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c0mmons3nse :
but capitalism bad, right?
2026-06-16 16:41:37
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chrisgrey888 :
This is why wealth is not a zero-sum game. If you are willing to spend your time doing something valuable for someone else, you create wealth. The more time you spend. the more wealth you acrue. If you learn to spend that time doing more valuable things, you grow more wealth... all so you can pay someone else for their time to do something that you can't/don't want to do for yourself. Makes sense to me.
2026-06-16 16:06:15
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Myron Pilant :
I buy shirts 👕 on sale every time the season changes. T-shirts in the winter $2 each and long sleeves in the summer $3 each. Timing is everything in fashion
2026-06-17 11:24:17
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Séamus :
Wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
2026-06-17 04:33:00
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roberto_1_2_4 :
I was ready to call BS but it seems you can fly from NY to London with $225, that’s cheap
2026-06-14 15:52:19
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censible1 :
I think the point of this TikTok is this: the value of anything is how many units of labor is involved. If a unit of labor is worth a dollar, and then it changes to $10 because we've raised wages, all that means is that we've devalued the currency.
2026-06-11 19:27:33
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gilbertbishop59 :
now explain how inflation is robbing us of the value of currency
2026-06-16 15:13:15
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shadowamazon :
a large house used to take 10-15 years of wage. Now it's 40 years - never years of wage.
2026-06-15 14:40:25
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✌️😊 Vintage :
Human hands do not make my electricity.
2026-06-11 21:32:25
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JoAnn Smotherman :
how did the researchers take into account corporate greed? an hour of work today gives a smaller portion of the product produced than it did 50 years ago.
2026-06-19 13:56:55
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user3309043386490 :
For housing, you have to layer in living square footage into the price. Most people in 1800s if they were renting, rented a room. Now many starting apartments are 1800 ft.².
2026-06-18 14:14:09
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FrankDelgrosso :
I think you missed the Mark at the end the things that have not been caused adjusted for higher production is necessity you don't have to buy a cell phone you don't have to subscribe to a streaming service but you do have to go to the hospital when you're dying you don't have a choice hence they can gouge the market it's not like they couldn't make it cheaper but it's because they know you need it so you're going to pay
2026-06-12 01:21:50
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