my needs don't grow but the prices on my needs do

My needs aren't growing, but the cost of meeting them never stops rising. It's incredible. I don't eat more, I don't drink more, yet food and beverages keep getting more expensive. Year after year, I have to earn more just to maintain the very same standard of living.

And how do you explain the prices' growth, perhaps because demand, driven by population growth, is rising faster than supply....leading to rarity and things that are rare are expensive



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Written on 2026-08-04 at 10:18

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jim The PoetBay support member heart!
There is no incentive to equalize the disparity. Wealth buys votes. Change is stifled at the top.

Ironically, and sadly, those most effected vote against their own interests all too often.

That can change.
2026-08-04


arquious The PoetBay support member heart!
Over here we are hitting $2 to a litre of petrol, that's not gallons, but litres. Something terrible is going to happen, the pressure is building.
2026-08-04


Jamsbo Rockda The PoetBay support member heart!
That makes sense. Bigger population with lesser resources. Soylent Green is on the way.
2026-08-04


Griffonner The PoetBay support member heart!
Hmm. Have you noticed though, that whilst you and I have to pay more for these essentials, the bosses, like Bezos and Musk become even wealthier and have even more expensive toys to play with! And that doesn't include Trump who now displays his avarice quite openly.

The Emeritus Professor Christopher May, quoted a statement made by a member of the public in the UK recently (Mastodon 01/08/26), and it went like this:
"Despite economists saying that it is too hard to tax wealth rather than income, there is already a wealth tax in place paying for social care in this country [UK]. The trouble is it's only levied on those who have the misfortune to need it. As your explainer points out, disabled and elderly people in England with assets ober 23,250 have to pay the full cost of their social care.
Why shouldn't the super-rich be taxed on the same basis - all assets over a threshold - and then they can pay for a functional and decent social care system for all the people they made their money from by charging extortionate profits and paying sub-living wages?"
It is that last sentence that says it all in my opinion.
Blessings, Allen (Sorry for the long comment!)
2026-08-04