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> while inflation means you get large raises

Wages haven’t kept pace with inflation in the US for some time.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us...

They’re only starting to rise because of labor pool constraints from the pandemic. Inflation would be very bad for most low to median wage workers, especially those in urban center where housing crises are rampant, especially if business interests continue to succeed at putting downward pressure on them by blocking things like minimum wage hikes.