Am I missing the point here?

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As I sit here in my tiny rented flat being told that I need to pay hundreds of pounds more a year to heat and light it, and watch my shopping bill go up week by week, I do wonder why.

There seems to be a lot of money going around. So it's not because of that. People who were rich before pandemic are way richer now. They haven't even done any work. They've just bought things. Loads of things. Gold bars, properties, all that stuff. So it's not like there's a shortage of wealth. So why do I have to scale back my already modest lifestyle?

Even in domestic terms, I'm told we've spent loads on helping businesses through pandemic. Well most of those businesses I have no access to anyway. I can't afford them. Restaurants that charge £20 or more for one course of food, people who own cottages that charge £100s a night, frigging center parcs who charge you a grand and a half to stay in a hut as far as I can make out, and you have to make your own way there. Why am I funding these people getting money when I will never be able to use what they sell?

And the NI increase. That's to enable people to pass on wealth to their kids isn't it?

All these things I'm being expected to do/fund/put up with when I have fuck all.

It's not right is it?

Haven't had a payrise in years. Cobid has made work just disappear at times. We made it through OK, but the past 6 months have seem things become much harder financially.

My electric bill has increased by £85pm despite using a lot less gas and electric than this time last year, food costs have skyrocketed to the point where I'm buying cheap shit to feed us that I haven't bought since my early 20s just to ensure that our tummies aren't going empty.
It's costing me about £17 more to fill my fuel tank. Water bills are going up in April.

It's not even a case of not working, its not a case of not having access to money.

In very real terms, the food shop is costing on average £16 more a week, fuel for the car is that £17 a week more, electric £20 additional.

That's £54 a week so far.
With the API rises on everything in April, NIC contributions going up, water bills rising, and food costs continuing to go up how bad is it going to get?