I’m sure inflation is no problem for him. He makes probably a million a year or better.
Me? I retired 4 years ago. I’m basically making what I made in 2018 when gas was maybe $2.25 a gallon. A meal at an average O’Charleys restaurant was $11
Now gas is $3.25 and that meal is $15.
Even the "benign" inflation of the sort Brooks desires to repair the economy from Covid is a type of inflation that might conceivably be beneficial if one thinks only of the mass but when one contemplates the plight of individuals, such as you and me, the effect is hardly benign.
To an instinctive leftist like Brooks, the individual must always be sacrificed for the general good. In the alternative case of benign inflation that he postulates, he presumes that wages will keep up with inflation, a fantasy, but still he forgets that folks on fixed income will surely be left behind.
