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Re:Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before ... by zeroonetwothree on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @01:59AM (#46702039)
Rent has risen about the same as wages over the last 40 years. So a bit higher than inflation but not so much that it’s less affordable.
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Re:Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before ... by bandrami on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:33AM (#46702290)
Health care and education are the two that have really outpaced inflation, the trade-off being that basically all durable and consumable goods have run way below inflation.
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Re:Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before ... by direwolf20 on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:17PM (#46738052)
Inflation is the rate at which prices rise. If things are getting more expensive faster than inflation, you're just undercounting inflation.
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Re:Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before ... by MobiusHorizons on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:58PM (#46740360)
Inflation is the rate that a whole basket of goods gets more expensive. At least that’s how CPI is calculated and it’s what I meant by it. Since that number is averaged across a bunch of goods and services, there will always be some that increase faster or slower than inflation as a whole.
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Re:Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before ... by danaris on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:42AM (#46702366)
Are those figures mean wages? Or median wages?

Because the difference between those is a vast gulf.

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Re:Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before ... by bandrami on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:55AM (#46702898)
Median. BLS barely tracks mean wages at all because it's extremely hard to do.
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