according to growth statistics we may be richer than we have ever been, while at the same time we collectively can't afford to keep the actual, well, food in the foods we are accustomed to eating. (inflation stats mostly don't capture "skimpflation", the hedonic modeling that hypothetically could would be too complicated and controversial. so skimpflation doesn't subtract from "measured" growth.) businessinsider.com/inflation- ht at the blog