> How do people even come up with this idea? You obviously have an opinion on it which of course you're entitled to, but unless I'm misreading, the tone of you

> How do people even come up with this idea? You obviously have an opinion on it which of course you're entitled to, but unless I'm misreading, the tone of your message is that the CPI is obviously calculated correctly and there's no controversy surrounding it. From what I have seen there definitely is, here is just one example from Forbes, but if you're interested in digging there are a lot of qualified opinions on this out there. https://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/06/24/the-major-problem-with-cpi-and-how-it-hurts-the-economy/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/halahtouryalai/2013/06/24/the-m...