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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/22/uk-inflation-rate-rises-price-rises-interest-rates

Ooooof, lucky it's just transitory

10.4% inflation.

"A complete shock."
"Totally unexpected."

How could this possibly happen with our safe pound handled by such professor geniuses such as Andrew Faily, Jeremy Cunt and Rishi Sputnik.

Ironically, my insurance payouts were upped by roughly 6% ("inflation compensation") for 2023.
Don't ask me how they calculated that number, i guess they just left energy and food prices out of the equation Huh

On the other hand, i'm really blessed to get regular money from the social system, at my age, at all.

EDIT: While the government's economic experts recently said it's very OK for everyone to work full time until the age of 80. Roll Eyes

I feel sad for the 70-something year old people you see at supermarket checkouts now even at times. Sure, that age range will probably only increase with evil insane policies being invented right now.

These people should be able to put their feet up.

But this is what you get with evil fiat pushers in charge.

I remember very distinctly when, right in the beginning of 2021 during the Covid bullshit, a major national grocery store near us scrapped all of their cashier lanes for self-check out lanes. _{_{(funny how they had those units ready to go right when the pandemic hit, huh? what perfect timing.)}}

This grocery store employed mostly 50-65 year old cashiers for years and years.

I remember talking to one of them the week after the switch out, and they said, "No it's a good thing...contactless, faster checkout because people can bag their own groceries...plus our company promised we'd still all be able to keep our jobs."

And they were still there...for about a year. They would oversee/manage the self-checkout units instead of directly checking people out.

Now all those older employees are completely gone, replaced by clueless 20 year olds now.

I guess they can 'put their feet up' now, whether they wanted to or not.

"Keep our jobs, they said." Roll Eyes

I was in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere New York and I stopped at a Circle K for gas. Being the only game in town, they had a little variety store going on with a few fresh fruits, ready-to-go foods and a quick-fry grill inside the shop so I decided to get a drink and some cheese curds for the road. There were two older ladies standing by the cash register chatting but they directed me to a self-checkout device rather than ringing me up. I didn't want to waste time learning how to use their machine since I would never be there again but they insisted I had to use it because it was "safer". I said, "Safer than what?! Anyway, I only have cash." then they replied, "It takes cash too!" While I was being shown how to use it, the lady explained it was "touchless" so that's what made it safer. Funny, I don't remember ever being able to touch the cashiers but they were never actually referred to as "touchless". Ah, technology.