"...How come I don't see anything priced in crypto that I spend money on for a living? mortgage/rent payments, groceries, gas, bills, etc..."
You can spend crypto on all those things you've mentioned around the world. Maybe you have heard that El Salvadore has made it legal tender in their country? In the USA you can spend crypto on many things but it is still early, so you can't spend it easily everywhere. Give it a few years and it will be as easy to spend as cash.
"... if one started an ETH AIM program in Jan 2018 they would've run out of cash in a few months..."
Yes, you would have run out of cash, but in true AIM fashion exactly at the right time. Using the "AIM magic" method results as follows:
You have run out of cash at the end of 2018 and not sold a cent until mid 2021 and been very happy you followed AIM's signals.
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