Message from @ManAnimal
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yes, but if you have NO money, you will have a hard time thinking of anything else
We have the CPI, @ManAnimal, but I see more artificial inflation of prices coming from regulations creating uncompetitive markets and taxation, than I do anything else.
I'd love to be poor
well the economy will fluctuate significantly accross lifetimes, so its still quite hard no matter how large your dataset
with respect, the CPI is flawed
That, it is.
Being middle class westerner its easy to take shit for granted
And that's the reason we don't use the CPI often anymore.
the metric doesn't account for the two functions that both contribute to inflation
it only accounts for one
The alternative accounts for inflation.
i disagree
Why couldnt i be born as a black starving lad not knowing if my water has aids
gdp seems to be the best metric so far, and even then its pretty shit
turns out trying to coalesce all of ecconomics into a single number is pretty hard 🤷
with an completely international system and artifcial manipulation of interst rates for decades, we have no clue the ratio actual value vs capital in the system
the best we can measure is liquidity
can do it by outcome but thats also iffy
also depends on your desired outcome
exactly; it assumes that the cash in = cash out
```Over the years, the methodology used to calculate the CPI has undergone numerous revisions. According to the BLS, the changes removed biases that caused the CPI to overstate the inflation rate. The new methodology takes into account changes in the quality of goods and substitution. Substitution, the change in purchases by consumers in response to price changes, changes the relative weighting of the goods in the basket. The overall result tends to be a lower CPI. However, critics view the methodological changes and the switch from a COGI to a COLI as a purposeful manipulation that allows the U.S. government to report a lower CPI.```
yes, yes. i am familar with the literature
This isn't literature.
don't beleive everything you read
well there was that stat released that only ~30% of investment cash ever really returned to the economy
The methodology for calculating the CPI has undergone revision since the issue of overstating inflation.
though i believed that didnt factor in depressions
that except doesn't even address the real isssue of concern
And, I don't merely believe everything I'm seeing, having been an economics major, myself.
taking their time
it argues the merits of the adjustments but ASSUMES they can actual quantify something concisely that contains a massive about of uncertainty
fact: my mortgage was 15x what a family with half my income could comfortably afford before i bought it
my parents could live comfortably on a few hunderd dollars per month
the purchasing power per dollar has been dramatically reduced however the metrics don't consider a 'per unit' approach
yeah thats the major flaw in alot of economic interpretations these days
yeah, i know
The only uncertainty I see is the fact it may take years for commodity fluctuations to catch up with the CPI.
you see them try sometimes but once you do any digging they allways do something autistic like base it on some arbitrary/global scale
You just referenced inflation again.