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[-] Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

will it go back to the normal price? ever?

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

Things don't go back to "normal prices", prices will always go up (ideally) and your wages go up to balance.

The issues we're facing at the moment is a pretty constant series of inflationary shocks and the controls governments and central banks have on trying to balance them tend to work on a much longer time scale resulting in sharp decreases in people's spending power.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 10 hours ago

and your wages go up to balance

Damn, seems like they keep forgetting this part

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 1 points 18 hours ago

The concept of "normal price" doesn't make sense

[-] TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 16 hours ago

That would mean negative inflation, which probably wouldn’t be great for the economy.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 1 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, negative inflation is a short-cut to economic collapse. Imagine if you knew a thing you wanted to buy would be 10% cheaper in a week and 25% in two weeks. Why would you buy anything today?

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