We all know the economy is not well. People are struggling to afford basic necessities such as housing and food. But it’s even worse than that. The well-being of the economy is based on the market value of goods produced. But for the last century, corporations have been adding artificial ingredients to food and mass producing garbage due to greed and rising prices of natural resources. Natural goods, e.g. farm raised food, is so expensive, it is beyond the reach of the average family. So, the corporations have been called upon to make food more available and affordable, thus adding more and more artificial ingredients and creating artificial food items in huge quantities. The GDP has been heavily skewed by these “food” products. And this is what our wages are based on! When the news reports state that Americans are struggling to afford food, the food they’re referring to isn’t the nutritious, farm raised food. They’re referring to the “food” produced in labs with quality lower than pig slop, chemically enhanced for flavor, colored, shaped, and packaged in a colorful package.

The government has the masses fooled. When the economy tanks, they simply lower the standards.