I see posts all the time on Facebook showing how expensive gas is.

[Warpy]

15. Dumbasses don't understand inflation

and fiat currency has a 2%-4% inflation rate built right into it..

In 1967, I could rent a one bedroom apartment down south, eat, see a doc when I got sick (which was rare at that age) and have a little left over since I wasn't a drinker or smoker. Shoot, it would stretch to an occasional ounce of grass.

That was at the princely wage of $1.27/hour, two cents above the minimum.

These days, minimum wage won't do much of any of that, the homeless shelters full of people going out to work for minimum wage every day in a lot of states, red states, uncaring states, fiscally stupid states.

Wages are always a lagging indicator, meanint they only go up when inflation has already happened. They are not inflationary.

Republicans will deny this to their dying breaths, may those be soon. They and "fiscal conservative" DINOs have blighted my entire adult life. They all need to join McCarthy and lumber off to the elephant graveyard.

We'll never see 31 cent gas or two cent iceberg lettuce again. I hope we do see living wages. America needs a raise, a big one. Fat cat executives and their overlords need a diet.