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It will be an absolute relief to the elderly/near-elderly poor, for starters. Like the woman I saw in the grocery store a few weeks ago on the verge of tears b
by MandieD 4y ago
It will be an absolute relief to the elderly/near-elderly poor, for starters.
Like the woman I saw in the grocery store a few weeks ago on the verge of tears because the cheapest cooking oil available was 6 EUR/750ml bottle organic canola oil, and that’s still often the case.
Inflation in Germany is every bit as bad as it is in the US, so this is also a bit of a welfare payment to all the people who take public transit anyway because they can’t afford to drive.
I’m 100% for this, by the way; it’s an excellent use of my tax Euros. It will probably make the U-Bahn less pleasant for me, but that’s ok.
- 0x008 4y agoAlso Inflation is measured really strangely in Germany. The official number is +7.4%. However, as someone who has no car and owns no home my main expenditures are: - rent (+13 % if I don’t move, at least +30% if I move). - groceries (+20% up until + 50%) - eating out / going out.(+20%) For this year only! Most prices have already risen in 2021 “due to Covid”… I guess for elderly people in cities it will be similar, probably less going out even and more groceries. So I really wonder how they come up with this number.
- nnt38 4y agoThe process to calculate inflation is transparent, you don't have to wonder.
- 0x008 4y agoOh thank you, your comment really adds value.
- rawbot 4y agoJust use the McDonalds Cheeseburger index. It was 1,29€ on 2019, now it is 1,89€ (+46.5%). Almost all my normal food groceries have gone up by the same percentage amount (raw chicken, ground beef, eggs, milk etc.), and these should be unaffected (at least for now) by the war in Ukraine.