For last few years I noticed that usage of something like "something is X years high!!!", "other thing is X monts low!!!!" become much more frequent around, intended to somehow force people to be alerted.
But what that phrase means really? Literally opposite to what they try to enforce in target audience.
Let's say phrase is "crop is 5 years low!!!". Awful, isn't it?
But it's not. It literally means that same crop was just 5 year ago and who knows how many times before. So, it is not unusual thing at all and it already happened, and we are here and skyes didn't fall.
Amasing how they use the phrase that state something is usual thing to pose situation as threatening. And many buy that shit without even trying to think on what they was really told.
May be it is in some schoolbook of propaganda tricks, and perfectly well-known by you, but I think it is interesting that usage of that trick is grow fast.
In any case, question everything, and I mean literally everything, even set expressions.
It becomes worse when using their fake metrics. They use those for the opposite effect—to cover up lack of historical precedent. “Worst inflation in 40 years!” is the biggest hoax, because inflation was calculated differently back then. We have the worst inflation in American history right now.
IDK, if there exists historical price records for some well-known commodity, say eggs or raw milk, something that produced in the same way for centuries and was not replaced with some synthetic in whole or partially. it will be relatively easy to see what happened really.
Oh, sure. Measurement of goods against gold is probably the best metric (though industrialization has altered the metric quite a bit since it’s so damn useful).
Gold is not stable as well. A lot of speculating and artificial regulations.
Try kWh of energy, f.e. You always need ~0.1kWh to boil 1 liter of water, and no politician could change that.
Paper gold is speculated out the ass, sure. Remove the paper duplicate sales and gold goes to $60,000 an ounce, minimum. Silver is the “daily” currency, held at 15:1 with gold.