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This site is showing you inflation! The relevant comparison would be your individual wages.

• vehemenz 25d ago
  Showing the CPI next to these price increases wouldn’t hurt. If anything, it shows the problem with a single measure of inflation.
  • dingaling 24d ago
    CPI is based on prices such as these, so it provides no useful signal.
    • ahmedfromtunis 24d ago
      Are you saying that a single data point contains the same amount of information as a dataset of hundreds if not thousands of entries from across the economy?
    • HDThoreaun 24d ago
      Completely wrong. CPI is based on the prices of all things people buy. Comparing inflation in one sector to inflation in the whole economy is a very useful signal.