Inflation has fundamentally warped my sense of what anything should actually cost. The price tags have become absurd—daycare running $10,000 annually? Breakfast hitting $100? These feel like economic dystopia. Yet here's the paradox: the biggest television you've ever laid eyes on? Just $500. Consumer electronics have defied gravity while essential services skyrocket. It's a bizarre inversion where tangible goods collapse in real value while human services and basic living expenses explode. Your purchasing power gets obliterated unevenly across categories. You start questioning everything—what's actually expensive, what's a bargain, what's real anymore. The inflation game has completely scrambled the signals we use to evaluate worth.