• Cyborganism
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    11 hours ago

    That’s still 2.4% on top of the cumulated inflation of the past 5 years…

    • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      Sure. But inflation is down, we didn’t go into a recession, and wage growth has been outpacing inflation for over a year now.

      This is good, we’re going in the right direction. Deflation would be way worse.

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      11 hours ago

      Yeah but unfortunately that’s never going to change. Inflation is the rate of increase and they always want a rate of increase, just at 2%.

      It’s never going to go negative because growth for the growth gods!! :(

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        Actually, it will never go negative (I hope) because if it goes negative we’re probably in for a massive global recession that will introduce untold suffering.

        You think they aim for 2% because that’s what’s good for rich people? 2% is the magic number for the whole economy.