Inflation isn't a scalar value, and all of this complexity is just trying to account for that. This thread is about whether an increase in effective income from

Inflation isn't a scalar value, and all of this complexity is just trying to account for that. This thread is about whether an increase in effective income from prices going down is the same as your notional income going up while prices stay the same. My point is they're not, but feel very similar in most cases. I used an example with inflation rather than deflation since people understand that more intuitively.