Why is everything so expensive today compared to the 80s?

Sad thing is, most cars made this millenium are... secretly automated. Your steering wheel can be hacked and you can be swerved into a tree. I'm going to drive cheap old beaters exclusively.

i suppose an empty house is better than none

Boomers

I know this isn't your core point, but just to pick up the technology boomerism.

Technology is only impressive when compared to its absence, otherwise it's just another medium for competition and innovation.

Boomers say we're lucky for having smartphones but completely ignore that it's just become another tool of modern life that you need for work etc.

The distinction is that back in the 80s, people were able to throw money at new tech that they didn't know would be a success or even particularly useful for working life then.

But the "essential" tech is what the current gen possess the most.

Wife and I collectively make roughly $70k/yr (not much at all, really) yet we can afford a $300k house and two new cars. It’s not all bad. Get a real job.

But in Lebanon it does. Question Leb/user/, y'all still got Philippinas working as maids over there? What about the "super night clubs?" They still all Russian girls?

The Jew banks fucked up the actual money. The dollar is worth less than half what it was in the seventies and we don't get any more of them for every hour we work. Basically we're getting kike'd squared. They keep all the gold and Mr Shekelberg pays us in promissory notes backed in the hypothetical value of our own debt that the government also sold to the bank and they gets to charged us interest on it. Our money is the single most subversive kikeish scam in human history

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Cos the elites are full of shit hence the planet is full of shit with accompanying full of shit prices for basic shit you need. Housing, water, food,electricity. A big tv for fuck all with nothing to watch is not a bargain. A nice car with packed up the ass streets is fucking gay, boring and maddening etc,etc,etc. We're being swindled out of mind,body and soul by these cunts and they couldn't stop it even if they wanted to. Which they don't.

Things also were designed to last longer if you're going to be a condescending cunt.

Jews

>Phones are quality of life
I'd gladly give up the pocket jew for home ownership and better wages.

Why do we make so much more money today compared to the 80s?

You don't make money. You make debt.

this

And what of wages back then?

>why is everything so expensive
Few factors, let's start with a few.

One is inflation.Where does inflation come from? Printing money to pay for current liabilities to pay off "later", which never comes. Ranging from gibs, social security, traditional debt, bailouts, and so on, it's the unfortunately ironic result of "redistribution", voted by the ballot or lobby.

Another is a unbalanced ratio of supply and demand that drives prices high. Housing is one that's complained about most. A lot of high-end, lucrative labor is centralized into cities, so it drives up prices even higher. Add on that people want to sell "luxury high-end" housing that rots in one month and attempt to sell a shit brick as a gold brick and it's messed up the state of affairs. Also applies to cars.

Another is wage stagnation, as median incomes have not kept pace with inflation. A lot of the labor that built the United States and made it wealthy got outsourced to some filthy poo or chink that builds the same product or service but with less quality control.

Another is personal choice. A lot of people (normies?) like to indulge in generally expensive things. New car, new phone, new shoes, new computer, new console, new everything. This probably doesn't apply to a lot of Jow Forumsacks, who hate the advertising, debt, etc. jew with a passion. A rich man that spends all the money will believe himself poor.

Also, people want to keep the hype of hyper-growth in the economy propped up and will attempt anything to get it done. This is also how crashes happen. As the saying goes, the harder you try the harder you will fail.

Criticize my brainlet reasons faggots.

>Your steering wheel can be hacked and you can be swerved into a tree.
Nah, just add a touchscreen to the car. The driver will kill themselves from distraction.

>One is inflation.Where does inflation come from? Printing money to pay for current liabilities to pay off "later", which never come
It is a commonly held myth that inflation = bad. This is because when people hear "Wait, I need more money to buy X?" they think that is bad. The fact is, inflation very rarely comes in a vacuum. It's often accompanied by other things, such as in the United States, purchasing power. Which has been steadily increasing. Which compounds with the third point you attempt to make. It doesn't matter if median income isn't changing because consumer purchasing power is. So even if you're making the same real income, you're making more effective income.

Your second point makes no sense. There is no 'unbalanced ratio of supply and demand' because the two will approach each other due to market forces. It does labourers no good to be jobless because they can't find a job that pays what they want and it does companies no good to not be productive because they refuse to pay employees enough.

>It is a commonly held myth that inflation = bad
Oy vey, you're right! I've been a bad goy thinking savings shouldn't be punished! I totally need my purchasing power now that it's worth a fraction of what it was when I thought maybe I should save for a rainy day instead of taking out more Jewish usury loans!

>saves money instead of investing it and then wonders why they're poor.

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This is a little bit more clear.
It's almost like something happened in 1972 (cough gold standard), and then something even worse happened in 1995 (cough NAFTA + Amnesty + Illegal Immigration).

Who would have thought that letting in 20 million brown retards and shipping all our jobs to China / Mexico and them printing 20 Trillions fake dollars would be so bad for ordinary workers? /s

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Invest it in what? The Jewish casino? I have some of it there since they created a typical impossible Jewish system where they need to keep the market going until they're ready to enslave all the pensioners and establish a new One Jew Government currency.

Invest in tools, skills, supplies, and other things of actual value? Sure. If you want some VC pitch it to me and maybe I'll give you a better loan than the Jewish banks.