Message from @Volrosk
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Because harassment can be literally anything you want it to be
Take DVD players - added to the basket when they were brand new tech - cost £200. Over time that price dropped to £30, then removed from the basket
Always shows negative inflation
the inflation measures it in units so it will have a new price
I love walking through this industrial estate. The amount of English and British flags flown is beautiful
Shame there's a paki flag too <:powerful:595334910764515338>
They did it with chocolate too - went from 454g to 400g
Basket didn't change
Which is it feminists, you're empowered enough to take a joke, or oppressed enough to feel harassed?
So i'm calling bullshit on you
its measured per 100g
So when they substitute Cadburies for Lidls?
And housing represents 5%?
On what fucking planet?
29.8% sorry
Still, what fucking planet?
depends what you mean by "housing"
"Housing and household services"
so that will include not just buying, but also rent as well
Buying, rent, heating, servicing
Council tax
House insurance
Repairs
yeah so of the 180,000 items they check... housing makes up 53,640
thats quite a lot
Nah, 5% of the items, 29.8% of the value
29.8% of the weighting, technically
And that's bollocks
so thats still 9000 different items...
And is why the inflation rate bears no relation to the rise in cost of living for working class people
well 95% of the items are nothing to do with housing...
and do working class people not own homes?
Sometimes
most of my family is working class and own their own home
Cost of the home itself is included
They should provide effective inflation rates as a graph based on typical household income
As it is, saying "the inflation rate is x" therefore your cost of living has only risen that much is about as useful as saying "the average wage in the UK is x, therefore there exist no poor people"
well they release those as well
They don't make policy based on them