Thread 213870221

And I don't like that.

>>213870221 (OP)
how poor do you have to be to worry about grocery prices? i just dont get it.

>>213870221 (OP)
they need to work pretty hard to suffer like we do

>>213870824
I was unsafe in Vegas

>>213871088
Check for STDs

>>213871088
I hear they have great buffets

>>213870290
This is how things are in the real world, firstie.

>>213870290
When you have to wheel a cart full of kroner through the car graveyard of Grünerløkka to get a loaf of bread, you'll understand our stress and insecurity.

I make more than both of my parents did combined when they were my age. They had a mortgage. I have a basement apartment and have to check the price of beef.

>""""groceries""""
>lays and doritos
wtf

>>213870221 (OP)
We live worse than the rest of the world

>>213870221 (OP)
i seriously find it hard to believe most americans are now closer to the average minimum wage filipino who cant afford to go to the grocery than a billionaire like elon musk

>>213872675
chips are often in or near the crackers/popcorn/packaged snacks aisle

Not a single American has appeared in this thread.

Concerning.

>>213870221 (OP)
Americans need to eat 10 times as much calories to maintain their form so this could lead to mass starvation

>>213871997
>When you have to wheel a cart full of kroner through the car graveyard of Grünerløkka to get a loaf of bread, you'll understand our stress and insecurity.
No Norwegian has touched a coin or bank note in like two decades probably, not even drug dealers want cash anymore.

>>213872746
@grok is this real

>>213872709
Here's the thing about a billion dollars.
You could make six figures for a hundred years and still be off by a couple of zeroes.

>>213872786
This is going to make the crash that much harder... I hope everyone figures things out (economically) before the globe is just a handful of dying rich, and swathes of starving poor
My bank has fucked up enough times that I always keep enough cash on me to get home from basically wherever, and enough cash in the safe at home to go comfortably couch surf at my cousin's in England in case something serious happens here.

>>213872709
you're not the only one confused, don't worry. Here's the thing...

>>213872906
Our society just werks, so this is not something we need to think about to be honest.

>>213872956
Ours worked great until the mid 90's. They all just work until suddenly someone fucks up.
If yours does, Quisling the fuck out of those involved - make sure their successors understand the consequences of failure.

>>213870290
>how poor do you have to be to worry about grocery prices?
I guess it's harder for families.
Even as a NEET living on the minimum neetbux (€400 after rent and bills) I was doing fine back before my permabux.
But I'm also a single dude so no kids to feed.

>>213873041
I'm trying to keep in mind that there are still a half dozen large paycheques still being processed...
In the winter, I can work 60h a week, and not have $400 after rent and bills. The missus gives me shit for having the freezer just jammed full of leftovers, but I'm going to be glad to have them this winter.

>>213873115
I mean nothing wrong with leftovers. I also have a bunch of containers in the freezer full of it.
Mostly because I am lazy and tend to cook 1-2 times per week and when I do I cook enough to last me for a few days or even a week.
These days after rent and bills are paid I have pretty much exactly €1k left to spend on whatever. Around €200 goes towards groceries and snacks.

>>213873468
I'm mildly jealous.
Might have to brush back up on my Swedish an/or Norwegian, pop on me ma's last name, and see if I can't swindle my way into a small me-shaped hole in Scandinavian society.

>>213873608
I know two people from the States who moved into rural Swedish towns and bought dirt cheap homes here.
But they work remotely. Finding a job in those places wouldn't be easy.

>>213870221 (OP)
Most Americans don't buy actual groceries. Most Americans buy ultra processed, packaged slop. Cooking is lost on most people

>>213873734
>Cooking is lost on most people
Same here, specially with younger people

>>213872789
Yes. I am Grok.

Dont worry, the tariffs will fix it.

>>213872746
>their form
LOL, that's a good one...

>>213870824
isn't that mostly niggers killing each other tho?

>>213876237
prolly
your point?

>>213870824
OH N

>>213870290
A lot of people don’t know how to cook from scratch, so they buy food ”products” rather than raw produce

Food products have gone up a lot in price, if you mostly buy raw ingredients, then the prices have not really moved that much save for special goods like coffee or cocoa which are very volatile by nature

Watching the us struggle with inflation is so odd, what's even causing it? Giving away money to Ukraine? Printing more money than ever to feed neets and niggers? Or is it just the aftermath from giving money away during covid?

>>213872906
This doesn't make sense. If the banks crash so does your currency

>>213871118
Check for drug addiction

imagine worrying

>>213876988
High demand. Unemployment too low.
on top of that there's the tariffs too.

I believe next year the USA will have a stagflation issue

>>213870290
poor like me

>>213870221 (OP)
Half of americans are buying every meal as thing likes frozen lasagna trays that you stick in an air fryer to feed your family of 4 and the price of such processed foods has more than doubled and almost tripled at this point. And the other half is buying rice, beans and masa seca to feed a family of 17 for a dollar a day as the prices of these has not risen much.

>>213870221 (OP)
>>213872727
>Reply to this fear mongering news article that is made every 6 months no matter what is happening

Our "news" makes this slop to appeal to people who need to feel sorry for themselves. The inflation in 2022 and 2023 was for real. Nothing has really changed since then. Our groceries are still by far the cheapest compared to our incomes in the first world.

>>213876988
Selling treassury bonds at unprecedented levels ever since 2008. Covid and the current trade war happening basically back to back is rocking the house of cards. Despite all of Trumps talks it looks like he's simply going to keep on selling debt to make his budget just like everyone else.

>$3.62 for a GALLON of milk ($0.95/litre)
>while I pay $6.40 for a gallon ($1.69/litre)
FUCK you, Americans DON'T SUFFER

>>213878115
so yeah, now you live like the rest of us. you used to be able to throw money away and not even feel it.

>>213870290
Noone is actually struggling, people are used to being able to buy all sorts of useless shit and travel twice a year and think food should be a very small part of their budget

>>213878846
Your milk is probably better quality.

Americans think the 50s were the golden age but things like food was a lot more expensive

>>213878846
It's made out of corn syrup and BBC semen though

>>213878846
it used to be half that price less than a decade ago

>>213870290
Most people are financially illiterate, and prices are finally getting high enough that their poor spending habits matter.

>>213870221 (OP)
Food prices have tripled since 2000, while general inflation has only doubled. And wage growth has come no where close to catching up with general inflation.

Things will continue to get worse.

It just proves that America is far richer than the rest of the world. They are able to afford expensive things.

Keep voting republican/democrat.
I'm sure next time things will get better.

>>213870824
missing the word 'reported'

>>213870221 (OP)
But can you really suffer in gringolandia though?

>>213876988
>giving money to ukraine is bad
zigger detected

>>213881614
Ukraine has no right to exist

>>213877042
The banks here are already slowly crashing. The trick, as with every trick in economics, is to beat the rush to buy or sell.
I'm already at my tipping point (or I wouldn't be hoarding notes like the world's poorest dragon), I just need a destination that's quite a bit further out from the sink hole..

>>213881108
She's a Russian scammer running a shell company

>>213870221 (OP)
>And I don't like that.
ok, cuck