Really glad the president of the USA finally decided to pull the lower inflation lever in the oval office.
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It's right next to the Gas Price Dial on the Resolute desk.
It's a knob, dumbass
It's right next to the gas price slider. Duh.
My apologies
Really glad the ~~president~~ knob of the USA finally decided to pull the lower inflation lever in the oval office.
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Now pay me more and we're good.
Why are you asking Lemmy? Wage growth has been outpacing inflation. You should be getting on that train yourself if you want it.
I'm a teacher. Don't come at me with that.
Then your union is negotiating it if they’re of any value. All the teachers unions around me negotiated 14-25% raises over 3 years over the last few years. If you’re a younger teacher you should look to job hop though. If you’re tenured you’re sorta stuck. In my area there’s three districts of the like 40~ I always push people that are new to end up in as once tenured in them you’ll earn well over 6 figures, even at the elementary level.
Source: former education and still friends with my teacher colleagues.
The union is currently negotiating. It's a strong union. I'm in year 5. I've been looking around, but my position is highly sought after (PE Teacher) and the good positions go to people with much more experience. Also, I like where I'm at. It's a low income area. The parents and admin let me do my thing.
Low income is also better in uncertain budget times as Title 1 funds make sure they have both fed and state funds. Here in Cali our property taxes mean that the schools in poor areas are the most well funded and the schools in rich older areas are the least well funded. Just with variations on what “rich” means here too.
If you have a state pension system too don’t forget to look into how that works for your district. There are some in my area that actually don’t pay the full percentage so teachers have a worse retirement than if they went to a different district with slightly less pay. So it’s all about the long game.
That's still 2.4% on top of the cumulated inflation of the past 5 years...
Sure. But inflation is down, we didn't go into a recession, and wage growth has been outpacing inflation for over a year now.
This is good, we're going in the right direction. Deflation would be way worse.
We should raise the minimum wage until it is commensurate with the price gouging. All at once, since none of the corporations eased us into higher prices.
But we have zero parties in this country that are willing to raise the minimum wage at the national level.
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You misspelled price gouging.
Yeah but unfortunately that's never going to change. Inflation is the rate of increase and they always want a rate of increase, just at 2%.
It's never going to go negative because growth for the growth gods!! :(
Line must go up.
Actually, it will never go negative (I hope) because if it goes negative we're probably in for a massive global recession that will introduce untold suffering.
You think they aim for 2% because that's what's good for rich people? 2% is the magic number for the whole economy.
Who taught you that? Remember, economists funded by rich people have obvious biases... And what happens if our salaries and pensions are indexed to the cost of living? Is the reasoning still good?
Just learned I was funded by rich people. Did I miss a paycheck somewhere?
-an actual economist, telling you deflation is bad
Aaaand now we get to the "don't trust the experts, they're all liars" phase
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You want a deflationary environment? Are you sure?
That's what you got from my one line comment?
If "deflationary environment" is neoliberal for "restrictions on and immediate reduction of the current ongoing price gouging" then call me Moleman cuz yes, i want that, right now.
Ok, well, no, it's not. Do you want actual deflation?
I need you to eat my entire sittin muscle. Dont say you don't want to, i can see you enjoy doing it by how you talk. Its a chore speaking with you often i bet.
get to chewing
Dagum smug ass no thinking neoliberals... Always sound like the same 20 something middle manager haha
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Economy still sucks.
Food prices are still up twenty to forty percent.
Right! and now, amazing news! Our expenses are only growing at a rate of only 2.4%!! Hooray?!?
2% is actually pretty good and about what you want. Maintaining flat spending power sounds great on paper, but also puts an economy at increased risk of recession and citizens at increased risk of ballooning debt.
That's nice and all, but wages didn't not increase year over year for most people, so most people would prefer those risks and be able to continue living, instead of helping to balloon the suicide statistic.
Most people are not economists. Most people would like everyone to be given $100,000 and a pony (or just white people, if you're a republican).
2% inflation is good. But an inflation number doesn't tell us where the gains are accruing. Ensuring gains go to workers and not capital is an entirely separate goal of the government.
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We're taking about the consumer price index here. Inflation regarding the cost of living only. This is, as i hinted previously, heavily caused not by "inflation" (as youd consider it in econ 101) but corporate price-gouging.
Corporate price-gouging is i feel i must add capital N Not inflation in the traditional sense... But in the scope of this article and our conversation, it is.
So again, fucking-A yes I want price gouging to stop, right now.. So like, if you wish to continue wit me we need to agree on terms. Let me know you agree this cpi definition and inflation in this case is "price gouging" otherwise we may as well just part ways
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Agreed. I’m talking about deflation though. The debts you acquire balloon in size, even without interest, during deflation.
I don't think we do agree. As you can see in the chart, our debts have been ballooning under inflation.
That's total debt, he's talking about individual debt. Deflation is bad. This is not really up for debate. 2% inflation is a fine target and worked well for decades.
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Waiting to see the creative ideas Republicans come up with to try to tank it before November
That's great the prices aren't going up more. Now go get all of these companies that are price gouging. It's great to protect people from it during natural disasters but unfortunate the government didn't consider COVID a natural disaster.
Oh they are still going up, just not as much.
I saw this when I opened Edge for work this morning. Two worlds in one picture.
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Yay people got fucked over bad, but they can take a water break before resuming the ass railing.
Too bad it's not on food prices
Haters will say it’s because of the election coming up
While this is good news, remember that this means that prices are still increasing due to inflation, just at a slower rate now. It does NOT mean that inflation has been reversed.
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