Inflation is good for you

Inflation 

Hooray! All prices are going up. Food, gasoline, and almost all other products and services are more expensive this year. This may be the opportunity that you have been waiting for to lose weight and beat senseless consumerism. It is also an opportunity to invest in the stock market. 

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Consumerism

You may believe that your life's purpose is endless consumption and mindless consumerism. You want to eat like a pig and buy stuff like a king, queen, or queer.  You want prices as low as possible so that you can keep your habit of buying and buying.  

Oh well. Everything is more expensive now. You can throw a tantrum, or you can gender up to the opportunity to reduce consumption, save money, invest, and improve your life.  

Food addiction

Wanna lose some weight? Inflation will help you. Seeing the high prices of food will motivate you to stop wasting so much on keeping all that extra fat in your body. It's time to start burning some fat. You will feel better and look better in your skin.  

Stop eating dead animals. Carnivore diets are both expensive and inhumane. Raising innocent lives to slaughter them is primitive and disgusting. Fudge the meat eating culture. It's killing the planet and killing you. Let inflation help you find better alternatives. 

Go plant based and eat less. The less you eat, the more you live. Save the food, even some meat, for the youngsters who are still growing up. If you are a fat grown up, wake up, move more, and eat less. Plants will keep you alive and well. You will thank Slap Consulting for the advice. Guaranteed. 

Fossil fuel junkie

Are you commuting to work because you want to, or because you have to? Is there anyway that you can get a remote work and enjoy the freedom of working from anywhere? If you still need a car, what about sharing rides? What about electric cars?  

Complaining about high gasoline prices will make you mad, but will not save you a dime. Do you want the government to intervene and solve this for you? Be wary of socialism and communism. The less government intervention in our lives the better.  Find ways to drive less. Move closer; switch jobs; share rides; consolidate trips; and avoid unnecessary road trips. 

Amazon Chinazone Walmartnese 

Stop buying so much cheap crap made in China and overseas. Let inflation motivate you to buy less. You don't need half or more of the things you buy. You like shopping because we are descendants of hunter gatherers. Shopping is the modern hunting and gathering. 

Be smart. Shop more if you want to, but buy less. Buy used. Shop at thrift stores. Opt for a minimalistic existence. You will enjoy having less clutter around you. Less is more. Guaranteed. 

A better world

Inflation can bring a better world for you and all of us. Consumers can become smarter and more conscious about the negative effects of consumerism. Producers will have to become more innovative at cutting costs.

Live to work if you enjoy what you do, but do not work just to consume. That is killing the planet and killing you. Let high prices help you eat less and spend less. Inflation can make you leaner, environmentally friendlier, and family friendly. 

Why family friendly? Because with rents and home prices so high, you may even need to move in with family. The only constant is change. This too shall pass. Enjoy it while you can.

Finally, if you want to be wealthy in the future, start investing in the stock market today. Buy ETFs that match the S&P 500. It's already down about 20% from its peak due to inflation concerns, and a likely recession around the corner. It will go further down for sure, but it will eventually come back up due to inflation. You see, inflation is good for you.

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