Big box warehouse trip recently, grocery items significantly up, brand name clothing about the same or a bit less, which indicates, in my mind, necessary goods that are nature - made are not so readily producible are going to continue to rise in price as the climate continues to heat up, while manufactured goods will be overabundant; I am not imagining workers in either industry to have much improved pay or conditions, as market needs will justify one and market saturation to justify the other.

gas is a bit high but reasonable atm. rent is not