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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by tantalor on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:38PM (#35291665)
> the lower class suffers by far the most

This is a tautology. The lower class is defined that way. If they didn't suffer the most, they wouldn't be lower class.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by anonymouskimmer on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:10PM (#35292174)
The "proportionately" is assumed.

It's possible to imagine circumstances in which the upper classes suffer proportionately more than the lower classes. We have, in fact, had these circumstances. Such as the impact of transition from land wealth to industrial wealth during the first couple of industrial revolutions that saw various nobles having to sell their ancestral estates and belongings. Meanwhile the lower classes gained jobs that allowed them to afford more than they could before.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by gizajob on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:17PM (#35292312)
It’s not exactly a tautology, technically.
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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by mitthrowaway2 on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:17PM (#35292315)
Your comment is saying "suffer(poor) > suffer(rich)" is true by definition.

But the article is saying "d suffer(poor) / d(inflation) > d suffer(rich) / d(inflation)", the truth of which is not immediately obvious.

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