Jeremy Cordon

Yeah, no, it's exactly right.

We pay for it with a lower standard of living.

I think I was reading today that to have the equivalent of a six figure salary from 1995, you'd have to be making about $350,000 a year today.

But they've got everybody telling themselves, oh, but I make 13 times the amount of money that I made 50 years ago.

Right.

Or that my grandparents made.

And if I have a six-figure salary now, that's making it.

Because when I was growing up, that's what making it looked like.

And it's kind of this crazy world where we use the dollar as a measuring stick and

And, you know, imagine imagine we use let's say we use the metric system, but every year they recalibrated the meter to be a little bit shorter.

Right.

And then people started saying ludicrous things like, oh, my house grew five percent this year.

We're all getting taller and like they just you know, it's so confusing.

It's like you almost don't.

it distorts what's really happening when the dollar loses so much value so fast.

And it tricks the average person.

And that's why we have shrinkflation.

You can buy less and less.

And the grocery companies are like, oh, shoot, we got to raise our prices.

But that makes us look like the bad guy.