Big box warehouse trip recently, grocery items significantly up, brand name clothing about the same or a bit less, which indicates, in my mind, necessary goods that are nature - made are not so readily producible are going to continue to rise in price as the climate continues to heat up, while manufactured goods will be overabundant; I am not imagining workers in either industry to have much improved pay or conditions, as market needs will justify one and market saturation to justify the other.
oh for sure, they exclude things like gas and rent calling them too volatile, but that’s what people actually care about day to day
gas is a bit high but reasonable atm. rent is not
Big box warehouse trip recently, grocery items significantly up, brand name clothing about the same or a bit less, which indicates, in my mind, necessary goods that are nature - made are not so readily producible are going to continue to rise in price as the climate continues to heat up, while manufactured goods will be overabundant; I am not imagining workers in either industry to have much improved pay or conditions, as market needs will justify one and market saturation to justify the other.