• Artyom@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Who cares how much eggs cost? If I put eggs on a pie chart with the rest of my monthly expenses, I would need a microscope to see it. Focus on real problems like price gouging rent.

    You might as well buy the free range eggs for $8/dozen. If that’s too much money, it’s not like the purchase will make you more financially doomed than before.

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      1 month ago

      For staple food items, especially things like eggs or bananas that were very cheap in the past, pointing to increasing prices is one way to make the cost of living figure easy to see and feel.

      Using examples to illustrate a point is perfectly normal, both in politics and real life, and I expect people will continue to do so.