greetings @tarazkp _
For me the inflation they show in any pate of the world is totally false and you can prove it yourself when you buy, however those statistics they show is to go psychologically adapting people since they have no effective mechanism to control.
Everything will depend on the need to be able to satisfy people's need to irrationally pay whatever it takes for a product.
I hope you can get that week off with your wife.

I don't think finance is frowned upon per se, only by those not in whatever you are. Crypto isn't safe, Stocks are risky, their retirement is gone... I know people are horrified at the market, but, I am investing in it and happy to have the funds to do it. 

Even as far as the daily market goes, it's a shark tank, but, it definitely pays to watch it and jump when you can. Notoriously September is the #1 month where stocks drop, but, they may make liars out of the experts this year, we'll see. 

I hope you do invest in the market, I think it is the place to win. (and lose big too) 

I have a house on the Atlantic seaboard. We fish, clam and scallop. We get mussels and blue crabs. We can eat seafood all day long, but, once in a while, I like a nice steak. My cousins own a charter fishing company so I get seafood even if we don't have time to go. I know I am fortunate and I am grateful every day. We don't really eat seafood every day, but, we actually could. I love it but the rest of the family likes a reprieve now and then. 

Someday they may not have a choice. 

>Yet, this hasn't stopped Apple expecting to sell close to 100M new iPhone 14s - which apparently is now considered a necessary part of life for many.

for that price I could buy a new computer. Crazy. I am just glad that my old phone is still working fine. but than again I only use phone for calling and taking photos...

I need to take some serious steps toward completely ditching the normal work-week routine. I took a step the wrong direction on that path, though, adding a day of manual labor to my library "weekend." Supposedly the district is deciding on a raise in the next couple months, but I do not know whether it's really going to make up for the inflation eating at my current earnings, much less the likely coming crunch as money supply inflation from COVID continues to distort the wider economy over time.

The economy is bad and I can't see myself spending as much money. I don't think inflation is a bad thing but it's bad when the wages can't keep up. I blame the government for passing a bunch of bills and for the money to go to the rich and powerful instead though.

In a way, it's tough for everyone and I believe that everyone should learn some financial education.

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You have talked about a very good topic.  I also sometimes wonder at the amount of memory in our country and wonder what they think it's torture where everything is so expensive.  Where the value of currency is decreasing day by day.  Along with that, the price of essential goods from food companies to take everything is going up.  Some of us have been thinking for a few days that even though the prices of many products have not increased, the quality of food has gone down and the quality of the food has also gone down.  Which is really funny.

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If that grocery bill keeps climbing, fishing might graduate from *hobby* to *side hustle*. 

I haven't come across people who think *finance* as a hobby is to be frowned upon. *Crypto* as a hobby, yes. I feel terrible for all those of my friends, now mostly retired, who are watching the stock market, and their retirement "savings" fall. But those same folks have been telling me I'm crazy for investing in crypto, property, instruments, and art. Unlike them, I'm not crying over the stock market today, because I sold it all a year ago to put it into property. 

So what is frowned upon is finance as a hobby that does not follow scripted, expected norms. This is true of most things these days it seems - conform, or you are an alt-right, Q crazy, conspiracy theorizing, domestic terrorist. 

Give it a go! 

> Paying more for the same meal, not getting enough food to fill the stomach. I get why they do it, but what they are actually going to end up doing is, *losing business,* because it is not great having customers leave hungry.

Oh yeah! I know how that feels!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/bc/66/3abc6647598b92f6be064343782e4cce.gif

> No one really knows how long the bear markets are going to last, nor do they know how deep they will go, but there is consensus on one thing - they always end, *eventually.*

Yep, that's true. *"There is no evil that lasts 100 years or a body that resists it"* therefore, we have to be ready to take the bulls by the horns as soon as the opportunity presents itself. :)

Sometimes I am glad that I have a personal interest in finance/investments. It's a hobby that gives me an additional source of income if done well, versus other hobbies that make people spend money to participate in it. Of course, to each his own. :)

> everyone knows that actual costs of living are much higher in reality. 

Wasn't there a thing where they'd get the average basket of food to calculate inflation, eg bread, milk, meat etc, but they'd sneakily exchange, say, steak for mince? So there's still meat in the basket but cheaper cuts. On paper, inflation is doing just FINE....ugh.

Ah, the dream of a long wkd... I had to have an utter mental breakdown and never recover so that I had extra days, but the poor hubs has to slave away... And my long weekends aren't the same without him in it. Sigh. 

Have you read about the case for the 4 day work week? 

Stuff going up ridiculously there too hey :/ 

Long weekends are good, it would be something to fill them. For example, a hobby that will never get bored.
I did nothing for a few days and this morning I bought 700 bags of Chaos. I hope to earn 350 Hive on this deal. Trading is my hobby.

![tr.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmchgfrN9wMRiDjGuowzLomE2aXAUMMy1nrTZrrHtyZ3Wj/tr.png)

>I have very little faith in the inflation reports. At the moment, they are saying it is 7.8% in Finland...

I wish we had that rate. They say it is yearly %80 right now if you believe. However, the price of everything has been increased more than triple in one year. You could imagine our faith in it..