Nice anecdote, but that's not how we arrive at the truth. Good data and a scientific approach does.
Now there are tens of thousands of highly educated credible economists with enormous amounts of good data in the US. It'd be for them, trivially easy, to constantly hit news headlines with a couple of papers substantiating why certain official inflation statistics are wrong and actual inflation is much higher, and we're all actually much worse off than before.
But there is no such widespread consensus economic research being published, I wonder why. I guess the quarter million people in the US who graduated with an economics degree in the past decade are all corrupt, as are all the institutions who report on inflation, captured somehow by Joe Biden... /s
Now there are tens of thousands of highly educated credible economists with enormous amounts of good data in the US. It'd be for them, trivially easy, to constantly hit news headlines with a couple of papers substantiating why certain official inflation statistics are wrong and actual inflation is much higher, and we're all actually much worse off than before.
But there is no such widespread consensus economic research being published, I wonder why. I guess the quarter million people in the US who graduated with an economics degree in the past decade are all corrupt, as are all the institutions who report on inflation, captured somehow by Joe Biden... /s