'Doom spending' takes hold among younger consumers - eviltoast
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    9 months ago

    And inflation isn’t like loan or mortgage rates. It going down didn’t change the inflation that built up. It’s cumulative. Those few years of 5-7% inflation made everything more expensive by that amount. And our wages didn’t increase by that amount. So effectively we all earn about that much less for no reason.