What I actually believe
Your dollars are getting weaker. That's the whole story.
A Sydney house was one hundred and ninety thousand dollars in 1990. Today it's around one point six
million. The bricks didn't multiply. The house didn't get eight times better. Your dollars got about
eight times weaker.
Same with the Big Mac. Same beef, same bun, same burger. The burger didn't change. Your dollars did.
Once you see that, the whole picture reorganises itself. Saving hard in cash isn't safe — it's a slow
leak. Owning real, productive things isn't reckless — it's the defence. And understanding why
governments of every stripe reach for the same three levers when the budget doesn't add up stops
being political and starts being practical.
I'm deliberately not partisan about this. Both sides have changed the rules mid-game when it was
politically convenient — superannuation, welfare indexation, health rebates, negative gearing. The
pattern is structural, not tribal. Plan for the pattern, not the party.