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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by kzrdude on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:10PM (#35292186)
I think inflation can be a force that equalizes between high and low wealth groups, but that's only if it includes wage inflation.

Inflating wages makes wages relatively more important than existing assets.

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Re:UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate... by cmurf on Friday March 24, 2023 @01:32PM (#35292578)
100%

And a large part of today's work force is simply not familiar with fighting for wage increases. They're used to getting meager increases that don't keep up with inflation. Workers have been getting screwed for decades, the slowly boiled frog. It's not worth the fight so they have in effect gotten pay decreases, in aggregate, over 30+ years.

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