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Comment by tardedmeme

24 days ago

That's just inflation, which is primarily controlled by the government via the money supply. It doesn't mean anything. What does mean something is the severe deflation in wages and consumer goods - why is all the money printing remaining in the rich person's realm instead of trickling down?

Inflation is not up 4x in the last 10 years...

  • Depends what you measure. I already said it hasn't been affecting wages or consumer goods and that's weird.

    • Very, very few things even in isolation have inflated 4x in the last 10 years.

      But as for this

      > why is all the money printing remaining in the rich person's realm instead of trickling down?

      Always has been, it's kinda one of the defining features of capitalism

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Peasants aren't picking up enough shit after the rich to distill traces of gold from it, that's why