by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

Imagine the following: You’ve managed to scrape together a few dollars to run to the grocery store and buy a few staples with the dwindling purchasing power of your US dollars. You park your car, and, of course, lock it, and run into the store to do some shopping. While you’re shopping and noticing that the price of an egg is now $3.30 and pondering how you might be able to hard boil it and make it last for maybe three days(thank you Build Back Better and Bidenomics), there is a muffled “whump!” that momentarily gently shakes the store.  You along with a few customers look up, glance at each other, and shrug your shoulders, and continue shopping. Butter? $13.67. Bread? $3.12…. The cart has 17 items in it, and the total is $341.03.  With your rewards card, you managed to save 24 cents, losing a considerable “reward” because you insist on paying cash.