Anyone living here has had the same thought at some point — this shouldn't cost this much, wages shouldn't be this far behind prices, something about the math feels unfair. That feeling is real and understandable. It also doesn't change anything about how money actually behaves.

Inflation doesn't care that island prices already make things harder before it even shows up. A dollar loses value at roughly the same rate here as anywhere else, it just started from a tighter position to begin with. Wishing that were different has never once made it different.

Gregory Mannarino's whole approach is built around this same idea — stop arguing with rules that don't bend, and start learning what they actually are so you can plan around them instead of being surprised by them. The rules of currency and debt aren't up for a vote, the same way the tide isn't.

Living somewhere beautiful and expensive doesn't require accepting that nothing can be done. It requires understanding the actual math well enough to make real decisions inside it, instead of spending energy on how unfair the math feels.