Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by porridgeraisin on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:05PM
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A 0.2mm difference is so vastly different from the analogy he made to using it as a measurement of volume. Hopefully you're putting this forward as an interesting factoid and did not mean it as an actual argument.
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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by drawkward on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @02:19PM
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I contend his analogy is wrong; it's not like "inflation" changed from a money policy thing to a labor market thing.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by _heimdall on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @04:58PM
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Inflation historically was a measure of the change in money supply. They co-opted the same word to instead measure an entirely different concept, the change over time of a basket of goods.
In my book that's very similar to taking a distance measurement and reusing the word to instead measure a totally different concept, volume. Curious how its different though, I may just be tripping myself up here.