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Someone enjoying the outdoors, even if they paid money to do it, is not the cause of poverty. The rich stealing from us is. In a million ways, but the biggest way, viturally unreported, is that since the 1970s the US led the way in changing the way the CPI was calculated, several times, to understate it. It's averaged 2-3% a year just by 2008 under the new metrics, while the old metric it was 5-8%. The changes were obviously not in good faith, although you all mostly assume it is still.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to these people, seeing where following their lead has brought us, just astounds me, truly an indictment of the population in trusting the wrong people and never admitting they made a mistake in doing so. Tribal loyalties may play a part, even as your tribal leaders have nothing but contempt for you and are turning you into a slave.
But that's neither here nor there, the inflation understated by some 5% for half a century is compounded, just by 2008 social security checks would've been worth 1,300 more a month on average under the old standard.
Our buying power has never been higher, on paper, the economists tell us. As rent, healthcare, energy, drugs, are all obscenely overpriced. Often the costs hidden under employer based systems as with drugs and healthcare, making people think it's just a problem of the others even as their employers, and themselves, pay more for less to profit parasites that add no value.
We meekly trust the authorities as they've for 50 years given us a real pay cut in value, and now even good college requiring jobs don't pay for what a single minimum wage job could provide back in the 1950s to the 1970s, while the ivy league that runs business and government in all the top positions puts on their suits as the representative of your tribe and blows smoke up your ass about it.