• ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    People tend to talk about things that affect them and are current. Unfortunately for most of us (or at least the people in my circle) we’ve lived our entire lives with expensive healthcare and housing. To us it’s the norm. Egg prices being this high aren’t.

    Also bouncing off your previous example, yeah there are people that spend hundreds of dollars on groceries, but you forget that people only have so much income; they might be balancing their budget to just barely accommodate $400 worth of groceries. Eggs suddenly costing twice or thrice as much might push them over the edge. Or, you know, broke college students whose primary source of protein are eggs also feel it pretty heavy (source: me).