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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Monetary devaluation is the only thing that gives any thin-veiled justificstion for price increases. Anything not covered by the inflation calculator is greed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

The inflation calculation is gamed too to make numbers look smaller