I have a weird idea. Much of what I see the left promoting is very luxury. A luxury can be a fast food visit, a new console, or some cool new item. It's not necessary, but it's fun. The prices of these are going up.
Necessity items are gas, electricity, food in the fridge, and internet. The prices for these are going down.
There's a weird upper middle class that wants necessities as luxuries. This is the "Farmers Market" fresh, Whole Foods, and gaming PCs for work. The price going up makes them feel better, because they think the value goes up as well.
No idea how to explain this to a lefty.
The left exist off of resentment. They already know what this is within their academia: the material wealth focus of the Petite Bourgeois. Even Orwell was so mind-raped by Leftism that he created the character "Mollie" the mare, who obsessed about her ribbon, and left when things got rough, and then everyone hated her and defamed her for leaving because she was bad.
But that's the thing... every Socialist is a Bourgeois Socialist. There's never been a lower-class Socialist movement in history. In fact, the lower-class were always the most reactionary group in every society. This is because the poor work very hard for what they make, and keep. They are unwilling to dispense with their wealth, property, religion, or traditions in the event that a "committee" of "learned men" tell them they have to give those things up or be killed. Meanwhile, the entire Socialist movement is staffed by people who are in the upper-class, or are the children of elites, who can't actually make the leap into the elite circles.
As a result, the prices of things that the commoners benefit from is irrelevant. The things that make them happy are "necessities", not luxuries, and they are to be guaranteed by the state. But most of the time, they know this and don't care. They just lie openly so they can keep up the virtue signal.
For example, Leftists support rent control because they claim it will guarantee housing for the poor. In reality, and this is undisputed by all economic analysis including Leftist analysis, it drives property prices up, and makes cheap housing fundamentally unattainable. This is because the Bourgouis Socialist is already a homeowner seeking to increase their net asset wealth, protect it from competition, and uninformed people may be dumb enough to believe their claims when they lie.
Say what you will, but at least the Soviets forced them to live in Tenements when they weren't party officials.