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by riffraff 680 days ago
You can't measure inflation via comments, cause inflation is a basket. People can say they see no change in prices because they don't buy everything in the basket, or the opposite.

For example, inflation where I live is ~10% but eggs have doubled in price in one year. It's not that the statistics office lies, it's just considering more things, and e.g. public transport had 0% inflation.