Now you are starting to get it.
>but official inflation was low, around 2.5% to 3% annually.
The us is a reserve currency they need to fake the data to keep it if it´s high.
>Now the pizza slice is $5 plus 9.25% tax, $5.65; the main dish is $11.95 plus 9.25% tax,
The boomers build a ponzi scheme and the leftist encouraged it , it´s an intergenerational ponzi every generation has to pay more taxes because pensions are a ponzi.
>Real-world inflation has outstripped the bogus official rate in sector after sector.
Yes user , imagine if the boomers realized they gain 1% interest on the stock market and inflation was 3%.
The ponzi would collapse.
>Costs have tripled in 24 years, but have wages tripled?
No , through globalization they kept costs lows of imported things , but things that can´t be imported like houses have gonne up massively.
Now you realize why nafta and trade with china is a symptom.
Since wages are not going up according to inflation you would not be able to buy made in america stuff.
So they open the border , but what happens with houses , healthcare and things you can´t import?
What you are living , neofeudalism.
>The majority of gains in income and wealth have flowed to the top 5%, and most of the gains in the top 5% have flowed to the apex of that income bracket.
Also a larp from the left , the only reason why the top seems to be wining more is because they are the only ones that can accumulate wealth for investments , the rest are fucked due to inflation.
In fact the only thing keeping the system working is the fact that the rich are gettin richer , just look at bezos or musk and see the jobs they created.
On such a fucked up system small companies will never be created unless they are software and don´t requiere capital.
Don´t worry tough user , the system is on the path of collapse.
Join the crypto rebellion against this intergenerational ponzi going on in the west.