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Who are you gonna trust: the government report, or your own lying eyes? No one I know outside of tech will ever be able to afford a home, but the TV says things

Who are you gonna trust: the government report, or your own lying eyes? No one I know outside of tech will ever be able to afford a home, but the TV says things are fine, so...

throw0101c 3y ago
> Who are you gonna trust: the government report, or your own lying eyes? The CPI is a national average for an average basket of goods; your local conditions may be different. It has zero connection to your personal budget. In Canada the headline national number was 2.8%, but the province of Alberta (as a 'whole') had 4.2%, while Manitoba had 0.9%: * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240319/dq240319a-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240319/dq240... (Chart 5) * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc... * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000413 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=181000... (searchable by province) StatCan has a "Personal Inflation Calculator" where you can enter your own numbers/budget and find a number that may be closer to what's happening around you: * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015... Remember: the CPI is a model of reality, and not reality itself. It is used as a guide, and to use the words of [Alfred Korzybski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski): * [The map is not the territory.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation) * https://fs.blog/map-and-territory/ https://fs.blog/map-and-territory/ Or those of statistician George Box: * [All models are wrong but some are useful.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)

Who are you gonna trust: the government report, or your own lying eyes? No one I know outside of tech will ever be able to afford a home, but the TV says things are fine, so...

throw0101c 3y ago

> Who are you gonna trust: the government report, or your own lying eyes? The CPI is a national average for an average basket of goods; your local conditions may be different. It has zero connection to your personal budget. In Canada the headline national number was 2.8%, but the province of Alberta (as a 'whole') had 4.2%, while Manitoba had 0.9%: * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240319/dq240319a-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240319/dq240... (Chart 5) * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/2018016/cpi-ipc... * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1810000413 https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=181000... (searchable by province) StatCan has a "Personal Inflation Calculator" where you can enter your own numbers/budget and find a number that may be closer to what's happening around you: * https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015-eng.htm https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015... Remember: the CPI is a model of reality, and not reality itself. It is used as a guide, and to use the words of [Alfred Korzybski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski): * [The map is not the territory.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map–territory_relation) * https://fs.blog/map-and-territory/ https://fs.blog/map-and-territory/ Or those of statistician George Box: * [All models are wrong but some are useful.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong)