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Re:Why inflation is not a threat by marcosdumay on Sunday March 14, 2021 @10:34AM (#26455762)
What is the arrow supposed to represent there? Nothing interesting seems to change at the arrow point, except for inflation.
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Re:Why inflation is not a threat by symlinkk on Sunday March 14, 2021 @10:48AM (#26455860)
Obviously it represents the point where productivity increased but real wages remained stagnant. I think you’re purposely pretending not to understand it though.
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Re:Why inflation is not a threat by colanderman on Sunday March 14, 2021 @12:05PM (#26456419)
On half those graphs the arrow points to an arbitrary "knee" on an exponential function. It's a graphical version of the Gish Gallop [1] and conspiracy-theory "it makes you think!" arguments. Explanation is definitely warranted.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

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Re:Why inflation is not a threat by spiralx on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @01:48PM (#26480264)
Except there are numerous flaws with the construction of that graph:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...

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Re:Why inflation is not a threat by marcosdumay on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:21PM (#26460546)
It's some 2 to 4 years off the end of the correlation on that first graph.
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