Re:Stigler Diet
by Houshalter on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:53PM
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Aren't the inflation adjustments entirely based on the cost of common goods like flour?
Re:Stigler Diet
by function_seven on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:16PM
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Yes, but also a lot of non-food items.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_basket#Consumer_basket
There are a lot of ways to measure inflation. It's tricky because some categories of goods or services didn't exist decades ago, but do now.
Edit: Okay, I figured it myself. Around $1850 Canadian, where I live. Still works out to $153 per month, which is almost exactly what I was spending on food during my frugal student days, about 3 years ago. I ate better than the pretty boring diet described here (though not by much) and I'm also quite a bit smaller than the human described in the question. Still, it's good to know that I couldn't have done much better than I did.
Numbers and assumptions: https://imgur.com/a/udCL3