
Here's an entire thread of /r/ireland users utterly bemused by the Cost of Living Crisis.
These naïve fools simply trusted the Multi-Nationals and simply assumed that the propaganda of "We're All In Together" and "Just Stay Home" was sincere and Mutually Beneficial.
Unfortunately for them, they never calculated that the insane increase of money printing from European Central Bank would lead directly to extreme levels of inflation.
We can compare this with the US Federal Reserve, where they printed 40% of all dollars ever printed between the years 2020 and 2022.
Now, we cannot make a direct comparison here, as the Euro is a much younger currency. However, we can observe how the actions of the ECB are just as monstrous.
Of course your weekly shop is signicantly higher than it was in 2019. How could it not be?
One of the main crtitisims is "Corporate Greed". Is this a brand new concept? Did it never exist before?
Or is it more likely that the Multi-Nationals consider you to be a patsy, a mark, for their own geo-political ambitions?
We tried to warn you during the Two-Year Lockdown about the wider economic implications (for both you and your children) in the long-term.
You cheered as the Canadian Truckers' were arrested en masse, whilst having their bank accounts taken away. They were "Far-Right", apparently.
Now, you are inherenting the Fruits of your Labour from five years ago, and these fruits have diminished on an Annual Basis.
Your Purchasing Power will never be the same again, and you have nothing to show for it.