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Cost of everything has increased massively, but they tell us inflation is 4%.
by inigyou 3mo ago
Cost of everything has increased massively, but they tell us inflation is 4%.
- ponector 3mo agoIphones are still with the same price tag attached, bit you also get more compute for the same buck. You can find many examples like this.
- inigyou 3mo agoThat's true. I bought 256GB RAM for an amount that used to only get 32GB. Wait, I swapped those two numbers around.
- wpm 3mo agoInflation famously measures iPhone prices alone.
- inigyou 3mo agoNow you're thinking like a central bank! Houses +200%, iPhones -200% (as measured by CPU clock speed), inflation 0%, everything is good!
- mynameisjonny_ 3mo agoDo they? https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
- 8organicbits 3mo agoThe link shows the first six months of 2026 for "all items" as: 2.4%, 2.4%, 3.3%, 3.8%, 4.2%, 3.5%. Gasoline ranged from -7.5% to 40.5% over the same range, which I've definitely noticed.