Prices have inflated so much over the past 10 years that a $20 bill buys as much as $5 did back then.
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I use 1930 as the base year. So the $20 USD bill is actually the new $1 bill.
Yeah except that’s not even close to true. $5 in December 2015 is worth $6.85 in December 2025 (the most recent data available).
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=5&year1=201512&year2=202512
That’s just as wrong as OP. You need to use the Subway metric.
Five Dollar Footlongs ended a decade ago. Now they’re 11-17$.
I don’t believe you.
Many inflation metrics are based on a “basket of goods”. Let’s say a basket of goods in 1990 is a month’s rent, a new TV, a month’s groceries, three outfits, some toys for the kids, a digital camera, and a porno magazine.
In 2026, people can barely afford rent and groceries. People aren’t buying a basket of goods. They’re downloading their porn for free. The comparison is flawed.
Yeah, even ignoring that, theres no way that claim is valid. The price of food here has over doubled since 2019. I used to work at a store during that time and got a burrito every single day, after tax it came to $1.03. Now, at the same store, same burrito, it cost $2.46 after tax. My $3 box of snack cakes comes to $5 now, cigarettes have almost trippled, and my rent has almost doubled since i moved here in 2020. Almost everything here is at least twice as expensive as it was in 2019, and my wage has only gone from about $9/h to about $12/h. I even have pictures of price tags from then, once i find them ill upload then/now pictures of the price tags.
The price of specific items has doubled
Rent, which has outpaced inflation had a national average of $1149 in 2019 and was $1650 in 2025 in order for average rent to have doubled you have to go all the way back to 2007ish
Instead of tracking a burrito, track how much 1lb of chicken cost or bananas or broccoli
Gasoline price is about the same and the price of noodles hasn’t gone up much. But the price of rent and weed has skyrocketed, so…
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Depends on where you live. I can get an ounce of weed, 28g for you people with better measurement systems, for $22-50 and I have a large variety of strains to choose from.
and the price of noodles hasn’t gone up much
From 8.3 cents per package to 33.3 per seems like a jump that qualifies as “much”. And if you get it on scamazon it’s 62.9 cents per.
This is based off the cost of a 24 pack of Maruchan chicken ramen packets.
