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Everything is Up

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Things have been getting out of control at supermarkets around here, every week the price of a group of foodstuff goes up. And I can understand certain of these increases because transportation costs have gone up. The thing is, at least in this country, we depend on the international oil price, and depending on how that goes so the government tallies the costs for the coming weeks.

Luckily, here our costs in wiinter actually go down, at least electricity because as the weather is cooler we don't use fans or those who own A?C use it either. Even though I must say, it amuses me no end, to see people have an A/C at full throttle while sleeping and at the same time sleeping with a lot of clothes on (shirt, shorts, socks) plus a blanket plus a duvet. Just why do they use their A/C? It sure beats me.

But back to the most important expense we face, food, well we do have a problem there, bread is up because flour is up, flour is up because of the Ukraine war, even though our wheat comes from the USA, and as far as I know US wheat is being bought at around the same price for years. So I guess we are being taxed more and retailers are charging more therefore making more money. But wait, we also have the gangs charging extortion money so that might be part of the increase, even though as far as I know the big supermarkets are not victims of these gangs.

In the end what happens is, as always, we lose purchasing power every year, what goes up stays up, and we just become poorer. Remember during the pandemic when oil prices went down to nearly zero? But, no product went down in price, you would have thought transportation costs would fall, but I even remember an interview with a local transport owner saying things were so bad he was thinking of closing his business. i wonder how he stayed afloat last year when fuel prices went crazy?

There is one conclusion to be made, we are being had. Every event that takes place is one more step and I guess the ultimate goal, unfortunately is to have a great divide, those who have and those who don't. Yes, we already have that but I think it will extend to where who can go where, who can do what. That is why I am saving crypto, perhaps I can get to be one of those who have.

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