gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · edit-25 months agoWhy grocery bills feel so high, even though food inflation is technically lowwww.axios.comexternal-linkmessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1132arrow-down120file-text
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minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down11·5 months agoShould I belive these graphs or the receipts from my grocery shoppings? 🤔
minus-squarestinerman [Ohio]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·5 months agoThe graphs if you’re talking about the economy as a whole.
minus-squaresnooggums@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoSo the part that isn’t based on wages or personal costs and therefore irrelevant for the average person outside of being a reminder that a worker’s increased productivity has not been rewarded with a matching increase in pay.
minus-squareGiddyGap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoThe graphs are macroeconomics, your receipts are microeconomics. Two different worlds that people mix up. That’s also the point of the article.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down4·5 months agoI wouldn’t expect them to be much different.
Should I belive these graphs or the receipts from my grocery shoppings? 🤔
The graphs if you’re talking about the economy as a whole.
So the part that isn’t based on wages or personal costs and therefore irrelevant for the average person outside of being a reminder that a worker’s increased productivity has not been rewarded with a matching increase in pay.
The graphs are macroeconomics, your receipts are microeconomics. Two different worlds that people mix up. That’s also the point of the article.
I wouldn’t expect them to be much different.