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I do wish that there was a long-standing habit of calculating inflation indexes by household expense category to pin down the actual on-the-ground expenses. For instance, the average household is rarely strongly impacted by the cost of electricity as a proportion of expenses, but as a critical input to a great many processes its cost relative to other things is of extreme import to many businesses' basic viability. Same goes for fuel prices and retail. There's some shockingly low-margin economic backbone to look at.
 
Captain X said:
If this was the case, more of us would be owning homes and be living comfortably rather than struggling paycheck to paycheck and mostly renting.
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I mean, it is the case. We have the data for it. The thing is that there always has been people living pay check to paycheck.

You can go do the same calculation if you want. The St Louis Fed has the data, IIRC, and you can download it from there, or mess around with it in a limited fashion on their website.

My guess is that the real issue is that more and more people are moving to cities who shouldn't be. This is the real problem. I can live stupidly nice life for well under <30k/year total (not including income tax), despite having chronic health problems, because I live in Huntsville AL. I could probably get that to near 20k if I got a cheaper apartment and used a more accurate estimate. If I was living in NYC, it would cost me probably over 100k/year.

Basically, America's economic problem has not gotten worse. Rather, it's social problems have gotten horrific.
 
There is a monetary difference living in New York, New York as compared to Dogbollocks, New York population 5000. The second place may be lucky to have a place like Target or Wal Mart but I bet you it is healthier to live there.
 
But in the places that have a lower cost of living frequently have lower wages as well.

So you have to balance where you live with where/how you work.

It's why southern New Hampshire is so populated now a days. It's much better to live in NH, where things are so much cheaper, and commute into work in Mass, where living is so much more expensive.

Someone like me, who gets federal money, choosing a low income, economically depressed area, like most 'fly over' cities and states, I have a lot of relative money.

Edit: If I have to leave Belize and go back to the States, you bet I'm moving somewhere like that.
 
Skitzyfrenic said:
But in the places that have a lower cost of living frequently have lower wages as well.

So you have to balance where you live with where/how you work.
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Pretty much this.

Would I be making more if I lived in NYC? Yes.

Would I be better off? Oh hell no! I'd be broke and complaining that "my mortgage is too damn high!" if I had my home in NYC instead of doing what I'm doing now where I am in Indy: sitting back with my feet up and enjoying a nice November day without giving a shit about a damn thing.
 
It truly is the End Times...



Snoop Dogg is giving up the SMOKE!

GIVE HIM PRIVACY!

STOP POSTING ABOUT IT!

But we all know the real reason.



Dudes a millionaire and never buys his own Weed. SMH... :cautious:

Bout time we cut him off.
 
Husky_Khan said:
It truly is the End Times...



Snoop Dogg is giving up the SMOKE!

GIVE HIM PRIVACY!

STOP POSTING ABOUT IT!

But we all know the real reason.



Dudes a millionaire and never buys his own Weed. SMH... :cautious:

Bout time we cut him off.
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Not only is he a scavenger he also chief's that shit once he gets it.
 
Husky_Khan said:
It truly is the End Times...



Snoop Dogg is giving up the SMOKE!

GIVE HIM PRIVACY!

STOP POSTING ABOUT IT!

But we all know the real reason.



Dudes a millionaire and never buys his own Weed. SMH... :cautious:

Bout time we cut him off.
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This just means he's going to an edibles only situation.

Which realistically isn't a bad idea health wise, just rather costly due to a lot of the portion potency regulations in a lot of recreational states.

Homemade edibles made from off the shelf weed flower made into weed flour are a decent baking product all on their own, due to hemp's higher amount of plant protein compared to wheat or corn flour.
 
Freemasonry has never been a threat to the US and have some good values.
Depending on lodge but hey, they endorsed me woth an award when I made Eagle
 
The Freemasons, Stonemasons, et cetera, are basically just "Old Boys Clubs" now.

Yeah, if you get in, you can make connections (especially business) that'd benefit everyone, and you have things like meetings (which are really just parties to get rat-arsed drunk), but world domination? All the conspiracy theories? If they ever applied, they're like five centuries out of date, haha.

You want the "real" Freemasons/Stonemasons/et cetera? Look at the cunts in the World Economic Forum.
 
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These guys are the one sort of secret society that was actually sort of big in the US in more recent history.
 
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Typhonis said:
I wonder how many in the WEF are from Skull and Bones?
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Skull and Bones is more elitist then the Freemasons since it's a Yale Old Boys Club.

Not all Masons are from the Upper Class Elite. There were actually Black Masons even in the Jim Crow era South. Random trivia you can look up, it actually played an (innocuous) part in the infamous Rosewood Massacre back in the 1920's.
 
Husky_Khan said:
Skull and Bones is more elitist then the Freemasons since it's a Yale Old Boys Club.

Not all Masons are from the Upper Class Elite. There were actually Black Masons even in the Jim Crow era South. Random trivia you can look up, it actually played an (innocuous) part in the infamous Rosewood Massacre back in the 1920's.
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Most masons I know we're middle class. Woth some high up people of local stuff
 
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