Why do people think that there is a "cost of living crisis" when there quite clearly isn't?

[Anonymous]

There is no "cost of living crisis"

If there was a cost of living crisis then you wouldn't see that many people out at bars, nightclubs or at the airport going on holiday. All I hear about is people saying that they barely have any money but yet the roads are always packed with people going places. Also the roads are packed with mostly SUVs that are gas guzzlers which most people who drive them don't need. If people really didn't have the money then they would be driving smaller cars with better fuel economy (or they wouldn't be driving a car at all) and they wouldn't be eating out or going on holiday. People have money they just don't want to admit it. I'm not saying that everybody is like this as I know that there are people out there who can't afford to go to nightclubs and holiday but for the vast majority of people they have the money and they have no right complain about the "cost of living crisis".

[Kaneki05]

Cost of living crisis always exists and always will, but yeah it's not a thing that effects people who have stable income jobs.
The system on a whole balances it's self out. In which people on stable income can deal with it fairly easy. But people without that's the ones who face the real problems of it.
Even I on benefits and that won't have much problems with living cost crisis longs if they keep my benefits consistent.

Though I think if your on about America minimum wage there don't increase frequently like UK, and I would imagine the same for benefits. So I can only picture the balancing over there is much worse. Plus I've seen their prices for food it's a bit ridiculous.
But people will find way to manage longs if a system is working, which it has to be otherwise those cities, and states just wouldn't exist no more. So on Average a lot of people are getting by.

[normalice]

The right wing billionaires that own all the social media push for an ambient message of economic discontent any time there is a Democratic president. If a republican ever becomes president, the tone will be that everything is hunkydory even if inflation hits 100%. This is because the only thing billionaires care about is keeping their money and democrats have been quite open about taxing them.

[sage2021]

Have you ever heard of maxing out their credit cards to pay for all the stuff you're talking about. Yeah, it looks like people have money to do stuff and drink in bars, but it's ptgoung on a credit card they can't pay for.

[NaultD]

Is there a homeless problem? So maybe there is cost of living crisis.

[gorydetails]

I’m glad you are here to tell people what they need

[Anonymous]

That many people out at bars...

Maybe you and your friends are just alcoholics. LOL