@thehatfox to United [email protected] • 1 year agoUK inflation falls sharply to 6.8% as cost of living pressures easewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square16arrow-up155arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoPrices won’t decrease but they are just rising fast instead of really fast which is… progress?! Technically peoples pay should increase but there will no doubt be a nice lag to that too won’t there.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoYeah but if we do that then inflation will just go up more. Somehow. Even though real wages has been dropping for decades.
minus-squareTenebris NoxlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoA̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ the system is fucked hey. Let’s be accurate! :)
minus-squareThenThreeMorelinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoDecades looks to be an exaggeration. About a decade and a half. https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9AEB/production/_108295693_earnings.cpi-2019-aug-13-nc.png.webp
Prices won’t decrease but they are just rising fast instead of really fast which is… progress?!
Technically peoples pay should increase but there will no doubt be a nice lag to that too won’t there.
https://imgflip.com/i/7vwr9e
Yeah but if we do that then inflation will just go up more. Somehow. Even though real wages has been dropping for decades.
Almost like the system is fucked hey.
A̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ the system is fucked hey.
Let’s be accurate! :)
Real wages have not been dropping for decades.
Decades looks to be an exaggeration. About a decade and a half.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9AEB/production/_108295693_earnings.cpi-2019-aug-13-nc.png.webp