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This is true, since worldwide commodities are traded in dollars, a falling dollar makes life's necessities more expensive.
This is a clue about the various rebellions/riots in lots of places, e.g. Arab Spring. A guy in Egypt who makes $10/day is severely affected when his food cots $5/day.
You can choose to drive, to buy junk, to watch cable TV but you have no choice about eating. If you don't eat, you're dead.
Food inflation is definitely felt much more in other parts of the world compared to united states because our food is extremely affordable given our salaries. In some parts of the world the daily wage covers meals for the family and that's about it. In those cases any uptick in prices can mean devastation.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/inflation-may-hit-the-poor-hardest/
"According to that analysis, the rich and poor have experienced faster inflation than those in the middle, but for different reasons. For low-income families, the biggest cause was rising rents, which are up 5.6 percent over the past two years, more than double the overall rate of inflation. The poor spend significantly more on housing than other groups, so rising costs hit them harder.5 Similarly, low income families devote a disproportionate share of their spending to car insurance, where prices are up 8.8 percent over the past two years, and electricity, where prices are up 4.7 percent. And the poor spend relatively little on televisions, computers and other technology items, which have seen prices fall in recent years."
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