• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This is only true of you believe inflation figures are an accurate reflection of the cost of living. Most people saw an increase in their rent and groceries of 50-100% since 2019.

    Are the people who earned $7 in 2019 making a $10-14 minimum today? Are the people who were on 30k now making 45-60k? If you genuinely believe that, you’ll believe anything…

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      3 months ago

      Most people saw an increase in their rent and groceries of 50-100% since 2019.

      What is your source for this?

      If you genuinely believe whatever anyone on Lemmy tells you, just because they are telling it to you, you’ll believe anything

      (FTFY, hope that helps)

      (Also, what happened to the other person who was saying 200%? Is this like a tag team where everyone takes their turn to send one and exactly one message to me, so that the abandonment of the 200% figure can be replaced with other equally incorrect figures in a way that I then have to disprove afresh as if the whole first conversation hadn’t happened?)

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      3 months ago

      most people saw increase in their rent and groceries of 50%-100%

      Source sorely needed. Y’all need to stop making up numbers. Especially ones that are so patently false at first glance.

      You’ve got one guy saying groceries went up 150-200% and you now tacking on rent and saying it all went up 50-100%. These are fabrications. Show your damn homework.

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      Most people saw an increase in their rent and groceries of 50-100% since 2019

      I’ve reported this as misinformation after the discussion in !news@lemmy.world

      Are the people who earned $7 in 2019 making a $10-14 minimum today?

      People who earned $7 in 2019 are currently, on average, making $9.24 - an increase that comfortably exceeded inflation. If you want to say we need to do way more because that amount of income is still a fucking crime, then that sounds good. If you want to say we need to get rid of the team that achieved that $2.24 increase, instead of seeing what they will do with another 4 years and even if the alternative is to bring it back down to $7, then I have some questions