I just can't buy impulse candy anymore. It seems outrageously expensive to me, and I got my start in the 50¢ era of the 80s-90s.
replyEverything I can think of at the very least tripled in price since 2000, but according to official sources we have a cumulated 50% inflation since then
replyBut your car now has Bluetooth and a reversing camera and that's easily a £10,000 value add so it all balances out !
replyOf course, and your mac m5 is 10x faster than intel macs from 2015 so they're actually 10x cheaper in our calculations!
replyAlso your rent tripled since then, so it counts triple towards the GDP, the economy is doing amazing, don't you see ?