That's cool, but inflation is still hitting me harder than I expected at the grocery store with 3 hungry kids.
This article and honestly a lot of articles by the WaPo seem tone deaf lately.
This article and honestly a lot of articles by the WaPo seem tone deaf lately.
Sometimes shifts in money flow happen alongside inflation, but inflation itself acts as a tax on savings and has basically no other long-term effect. In the long term inflation will make prices double and wages double and the effect is nothing. There's no actual difference between a $2 big mac and a $20 big mac.
What you're describing is changes in productivity and spending and overhead, not inflation.