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Eggs US – Price – Chart

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1. ttyprintk ◴[] No.42951575[source]
Anyone serious about middle-class spending has been laser-focused on healthcare. It’s a luxury to ponder egg prices.
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2. slothtrop ◴[] No.42951601[source]
Everyone has to buy food. Eggs are (generally) an inexpensive animal product, and people in the US generally buy animal products.
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3. ttyprintk ◴[] No.42951708[source]
It’s a much stronger argument to say that anyone who sits down to do their household finances, blithely passes over their health insurance and worries about eggs must be buying thousands per month. In terms of GDP, health spending is 3x all agriculture.
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4. slothtrop ◴[] No.42951769{3}[source]
Eggs are just signaled out as part of a whole. Inflation impacts many food products, as you well have noticed. Did you grocery bill go up since 2020, or did it not?
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5. ttyprintk ◴[] No.42951901{4}[source]
I’d wager prescription drug price inflation outpaced food. We know gas prices went down.

Finding out an adult is preoccupied about egg prices means finding out they’re extremely susceptible to propaganda, and not very close to household finances.