I know I get a lot less food in my grocery cart though

Yes because we tend to load our carts with junk that is high margin for the food companies. Look at the price of grains and other commodities and you see that are not going up.

rent is higher for same sq footage

Depends upon the area. In the major cities right now, it is plummeting. So that cycle might be reversing.

automobile prices are much higher

To try and compare a car now to one even 20 years ago is misguided. They are not even the same. Did the older cars have back up cameras, auto lane changers, or phone connectivity? Also, it was not too many decades back that a car was basically dead at 125K miles.

So people truly do not look at things, instead just embracing the mantra of what is espoused.

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