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minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-213 days agoThe reference point for how expensive something is shouldn’t be inflation but wages. If you look at it that way, cars have definitely become much more expensive/unaffordable.
minus-squareOwOarchist@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·13 days agoIf you look at it that way, nearly everything has become much more expensive/unaffordable, as wages have not kept up with inflation.
minus-squareunexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up14·13 days agoAnd that would be a correct assessment…
minus-squarezergtoshi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·13 days ago…which leads to the conclusion that we’ve got to eat the rich, because that’s where the wealth created by workers went and still goes.
The reference point for how expensive something is shouldn’t be inflation but wages. If you look at it that way, cars have definitely become much more expensive/unaffordable.
If you look at it that way, nearly everything has become much more expensive/unaffordable, as wages have not kept up with inflation.
And that would be a correct assessment…
…which leads to the conclusion that we’ve got to eat the rich, because that’s where the wealth created by workers went and still goes.