“While inflation has cooled from its peak, grocery prices have not returned to where consumers remember them,” Martin told The Post.
“Food prices have effectively reset to a permanently higher level after years of supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, transportation costs, and broad inflationary pressures,” he added.
Meanwhile the minimum wage hasn’t been raised in almost 20 years. There’s nothing that leads to revolution faster than hunger:
Every society is three meals away from chaos
-Vladimir Lenin
"Every society is three meals away from chaos
-Vladimir Lenin"
The US starved for over a decade during the great depression. Even by WWII almost 40% of men were turned away from joining the army because of malnourishment so bad it had affected their development.
People really like to pretend revolution is just around the corner.