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I came across a GIF on my twitter feed that I found surprising yet obvious — a graph that highlighted the rise of consumer prices across industries: I saw our medical care sky rocketing from 2000-2015, which we all felt, yet it was still saddening. I saw housing costs shoot up similarly, which was also apparent from my trips to San Francisco, New York City and Philadelphia. But then I saw apparel at the bottom of the page dropping from 2000-2005 and landing lower in 2015 than in 2000.....