What To Say To Someone Struggling With Inflation

Offer them the perfect opportunity to dig themselves out of their unfortunate financial hole.

Offer support, but also give them a heads-up that you’re packing up for Columbus before you go into thousands of dollars in debt.

Ease their stress by reminding them that their standing in our class system is more permanent now than ever before.

Reminding them of your fabulous wealth will help encourage them to work harder and become fabulously wealthy themselves.

Oh, great, now they’ve lost that too.

Help them survey their slightly-less-overpriced food options near the office.

They wouldn’t want to miss out on this incredible, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Unfettered capitalism isn’t for everyone.

If Amazon can pull itself up by its bootstraps, anyone can!

They need to appreciate the little things in life they already have.

You don’t want them getting their poor, dirty hands on anything inside your home.

When they panic about the cost of groceries, remind them that children don’t require sustenance until they turn at least 15.

They will probably be too disoriented from starvation to realize you are lying.

Remind them this is their fault.

Sadly, the planning and expertise required to pull off such a caper are outside the average working family’s capabilities.

It’s being repossessed.

It’s at least worth testing their value on the open market.

Go back to the basics by kick-starting a bartering-based micro-economy with them.

Most time-travel experiences let you bring a carload of goods back with you.

You’ll hardly notice a difference!

Perspective is key.

Just watch their eyes light up with understanding!