Sounds like a fair trade, if it gets underemployed Americans good jobs with fair benefits.

The costs of housing and medical care completely dwarf everything else in my life, so the cost of consumer goods hardly matter at all compared to those things. We pretend we don't have inflation just because consumer goods are still cheap, but we're not looking in the right places.

I may as well buy fewer goods at higher prices and get Americans back to working higher paid manufacturing jobs in the process. My dollar's already worth less towards the things that really matter, anyway.