People
Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
— Robert Orben
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A sardonic joke about rising prices: when everything costs the same, luxuries and necessities are finally equal, and that gets called democracy. The humor is in treating unaffordable essentials as a leveling force, so a bleak economic complaint arrives dressed as good news.
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