The prices on everything inflate at different rates. Average inflation is imperfect. Gold inflated at a higher rate than most other items. Most meat inflated at a much higher rate too. Some items, like some computers and TVs inflated little to none

Keith

Technology is deflationary

We are talking stated/paper values. If I could trade my gold and silver for cash today (based on stated spot value) minus 10% I would. Then I would save the money when gold/silver prices correct in the future buy back big. But no one will pay that price and I did not buy it as an investment. This thread is talking a hundred different languages of cost to value on different items.

The biggest problem I see is wages have not kept up with inflation.

I did a comparison of the buying power of the dollar when my parents retired in 1988 to the value of today's dollar.

To have the equivalent buying power of a 1988 dollar, I would have to have $2.56 today. I can tell you there is no way my wages have kept up with that swing.

As hard as its is for me to say, I attribute a lot of this decline in buying power to corporate greed. I know there are other reasons, but this one is hard to ignore. Wages have not kept up with inflation unless you are at the top of the heap. There wages have sky rocketed.

Oh sure, let's blame businesses instead of placing the blame where it lies, which is with a government that is continuously devaluing our money by printing it like it's Monopoly money.

This. As an employer I can say we can only pay more if paid more. Does not happen. Government corruption not corporate greed is the problem. Lately things have been turning for my industry. Push for less foreign supply.

X3

Good example here;

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/irobot-...Sb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Inflation isn't created equal. Assuming it's the same, exact item. No 'new and improved' product price can be very stable.

One pound of potatoes in 2004 was $1.09 and in 2025 a pound is .97¢. so deflation.

You compare a same brand car for those years the cost is substantial more now. It is an item that is and improved so cost/inflation over that time plays a part.

Location where you live, taxes where you live make a huge difference on everything you buy. Utilities necessities in life change from one part of US to another. Supply and demand from day to day year to year effects over all cost/inflation.

I’m not seeing much of a connection between roomba vacuums and increasing money supply,,,,

Must be missing something?

I took it as him referring more to government corruption/interference than the money supply. An American company bought out by the Chinese due to heavy-handed government interference. Point being government is always to blame, lol.

lol

Roomba had a pretty good run,,,, 35 years

Did those actually work??

Inflation is another word for devaluation of the dollar, which is nothing more than a very aggressive form of taxation.