SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertymessage-squaremessage-square194linkfedilinkarrow-up1883arrow-down135
arrow-up1848arrow-down1message-squarePeople who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be poor and how close middle class is to being below the povertySatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前message-square194linkfedilink
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 天前I don’t see what’s silly about it. It’s the purchasing power that matters - not the numeric value.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 天前That’s exactly the point I was making.
minus-squarePerspectivist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 天前So it makes sense to adjust prices for inflation because the numeric value itself doesn’t illustrate the purchasing power accurately.
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 天前That’s exactly the point I was making.
I don’t see what’s silly about it. It’s the purchasing power that matters - not the numeric value.
That’s exactly the point I was making.
So it makes sense to adjust prices for inflation because the numeric value itself doesn’t illustrate the purchasing power accurately.
That’s exactly the point I was making.