The year is 2028
The unemployment rate is 99.7%
You receive your $700 universal basic income from the government
You have 3 days to gamble it on a prediction market to make your $2,800/mo rent on a studio apartment 70 miles outside Tulsa, Oklahoma
If you can’t quadruple the money, the government seizes your clothes and send you to be on Season 9 of Beast Games
The loser of the season is hunted alive by the elites for sport, live streamed on TikTok
I had 10k shares of AMD in 2015 but I had to sell it all down to pay my rent because I was making 17 dollars a hours in a city where rent was 1400 at the time
Honestly yeah? Haven’t seen prices go up much. In fact rent in my city has dropped a decent amount and I live in a big tech city. Oil prices down, food prices are roughly the same. Used car prices almost unchanged
Sure everything is indeed a lot higher than it was pre-COVID, but 2025 was not an inflationary year, 2.8% seems accurate.