Some Tuesday Math

The Consumer Price Index is out today. Sometimes I wonder why I pay attention to it.
To me, it is a gross misrepresentation of progress or growth. The machines control the parameters, and all the systems that are attached (every corporation that is publicly traded) respond to bring their numbers into alignment with the system guidelines.
But the system isn't being measured, our spending gets measured in comparison to the system, and that gets called growth. In fact, the index only takes into account 29% of the population, who have jobs and are making enough to be able to afford a little more than the middle class. It doesn't matter that we are starving out here, and that the percentages of increase means that there is less we have to spend on our needs. The machines label that growth. I label it disaster.
If you are paying attention, then you start to realize, that this isn't going to stop anytime soon, because there aren't any brakes to slow down the machines. Only systems of algorithms pushing it further and further ahead. If the production is 100%, it doesn't matter that they are selling half of what they were last year, because they have adjusted prices, and if you are really paying attention, they have also adjusted the sizes of what they are selling and switched to using less or inexpensive materials. This allows profits to remain steady.
I wonder many days, how long the system can stress? How long can they float these numbers over everyone's heads and keep making them all think that it will be okay? This system is siphoning money out of the lower classes at the same rates they are calling growth. Only they are using the rich people to skew the numbers lower so that it looks like everybody is only spending just a little bit more. That is such a bold faced, lying mask. But it's working. Nobody seems to have figured it out yet. People supporting political parties are marching out those numbers using them proof of a positive recovery. It is all lies and games. Only they know it.
They have been hoarding and stocking away resources all year. The people who know that this is a sham, they are preparing. The purchase orders are all over the web. Construction, ammunition, bulk food buyouts. They are preparing for the system to rupture and they are still telling us to our faces that it's good. Things are a little tough, but they'll get better.
Here is what I can't figure out, if their numbers keep going up, and ours don't, how long will it be before their numbers stop increasing?