StarvingMartistAug 15, 2025

Go on then

https://sh.itjust.works/post/44159812

Show threadEtherWhack

People need to learn that when they hear ‘inflation is down’, it doesn’t mean things are getting cheaper, it just means that the increase in cost is slowing down.

Is it a psychological tactic that news media is using to make consumers more complacent? Who knows. But, whenever I hear someone mention that phrase like things are improving, I die a little more each time.

Aug 15, 2025 at 4:57pmWeb
Show threadJankatarchAug 15, 2025
“Inflation is just supply-and-demand when you think about it.”
Show threadwischiAug 15, 2025
Yes, vut with the supply being almost literally just a printer. Typically 2% inflation are intentionally targeted to prevent deflation (which is also not good).
Show threadbierAug 15, 2025
Not really… The economy is more and more controlled by a hand full of large multinationals. So if one corporation has 90% of the market (using different brand names to fake competition), they can raise the price far beyond just supply and demand. In the end we all need food and Healthcare etc. When you have the option of paying way to much (for some medicine) or dying, you can’t really say no, right.
Show threadpivot_rootAug 15, 2025

And shelter, which developers, slumlords, and property management companies would be more than happy to see doubled every decade.

If you include necessities beyond just what is needed to not end up dead, we also have:

  • Electricity
  • Sewage and waste disposal
  • Personal transportation (in North America, where suburbs are sprawling and transit is inadequate)
  • Phone or internet (needed for employment)

There are plenty of places where the average person has no choice but to get bent over and fucked by profit-seeking corporations.

Show threadrumbaAug 15, 2025
if inflation made my paycheck go up, that’d be great. As it stands I have a LOT less buying power and my industry is waffling so I’m only seeing 2% increases for years.
Show threadfreebeeAug 15, 2025
It exists. In Belgium and I think also Luxembourg inflation in prices of common consumer things automatically triggers wages, unemployment money, pensions to rise too. For most jobs it triggers when it hits 2%. Life got 2 % more expensive, wages rise 2 % a few months / a year later. Using a basket of consumer prices, excluding things like fuel, alcohol, tobacco prices
Show threadrumbaAug 15, 2025
Heh I stopped in Belgium years before the Euro money conversion, chill place. I remember going to an atm to get some local currency to shop and the options were something like 1000, 5000, 10000. It was pre smartphone so I had no idea what the conversion was or what to choose. So I just hit something in the middle and had WAY too much money to buy some fresh fruit and chocolate.
Show threadOryginAug 16, 2025
Yet they still manage to fuck us over by “jumping” an index. 2% may not seem much now but compounded we lose a lot over the years
Show threadBronzebeardAug 16, 2025
You (and every step angle other employee at your company) should be demanding AT LEAST an inflation adjustment every year from your boss.
Show threadOryginAug 17, 2025
Sure, but to only get told there is no budget now and it will be re-evaluated next year
Show threadBronzebeardAug 17, 2025
Which is the point of having the rest of the employees behind you, no raise, no work.
Show threadfreebeeAug 17, 2025
In other countries EVERY index gets jumped unless they successfully negotiate/strike for the raise. Yeah, jumped index sucks but it was still a rather occasional thing. There’s been only 4 I think, 3 times in the eighties, 1 time in 2015…
Show threadwewbullAug 15, 2025
The inflation figure is an annual figure though. It means things are 2.7% more expensive than they were last year. OP is showing an example nearer 60%.
Show threadClentAug 16, 2025
It’s actually showing 47%. The price is based on pounds which increased from $10.99 to $15.99.
Show threadTjaAug 16, 2025

Since it’s from April to August, it’s actually showing 31% annual.

And since a sample size of one, and the location is redacted (could be comparing Texas with NYC or Hawaii) it’s showing nothing.

Show threadsqglAug 16, 2025
And meat prices are factored into a CPI I presume.
Show threadwewbullAug 17, 2025
I think OP is trying to demonstrate how useless CPI is as a measure.
Show threadGreyEyedGhostAug 17, 2025
Inflation isn’t based on the cost of a single thing. You’re confusing it with stocks.
Show thread「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Aug 16, 2025
The Titanic is sinking slower! HORRAY!
Show threadToadOfHypnosisAug 16, 2025
Tactics like this can be used because the education system has gotten so bad that people have terrible critical thinking skills.
Show threadNeilBrüAug 16, 2025
They want us smart enough to push the buttons and pull the levers, but dumb enough to not realize how badly we’re getting fucked.
Show threadGraniteMAug 16, 2025

How it feels when headlines celebrate that inflation is down:

Show threadBronzebeardAug 16, 2025
Celebrating the discontinuance of something bad happening… isn’t that weird.