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| I have the feeling that the whole trade war starts from a pile of nonsense. |
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| apis:
--- Quote from: Simon on June 02, 2019, 06:57:32 pm ---We get 2-3% rise every year and frankly if we did not many would probably not feed themselves. --- End quote --- That is actually no rise at all, since the inflation in the UK is 2.1%, if you get less rise than that it is effectively a reduction of your salary (you can buy less than before). https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: apis on June 02, 2019, 07:03:27 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on June 02, 2019, 06:57:32 pm ---We get 2-3% rise every year and frankly if we did not many would probably not feed themselves. --- End quote --- That is actually no rise at all, since the inflation in the UK is 2.1%, if you get less rise than that it is effectively a reduction of your salary (you can buy less than before). https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy --- End quote --- Yes which is what i was trying to explain. We are poorly paid and if we do not get that 2-3% we start to slip down. Tho government changed the "basket" of goods that they use to measure inflation putting a lot of imported technology goods in that tend to become cheaper anyway so i do not beleive the official figure. People need to put a roof over thuir heads, run a car, eat and cloth themselves. Everything else other than a cheap computer and phone is a luxury and should not be counted. |
| Simon:
And of course if we got a 10% rise it would be less than a 1% increase in the company costs! |
| apis:
--- Quote from: Simon on June 02, 2019, 07:07:36 pm ---Tho government changed the "basket" of goods that they use to measure inflation putting a lot of imported technology goods in that tend to become cheaper anyway so i do not beleive the official figure. --- End quote --- Yeah, that "basket" is supposed to include what you need to survive (although that is pretty arbitrary), but it doesn't reflect the actual value of the items (how much work went into producing them) that typically gets lower and lower every year because of automation (and lower quality), etc. The whole system works so that people get just barely enough to get by. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: apis on June 02, 2019, 07:15:47 pm --- --- Quote from: Simon on June 02, 2019, 07:07:36 pm ---Tho government changed the "basket" of goods that they use to measure inflation putting a lot of imported technology goods in that tend to become cheaper anyway so i do not beleive the official figure. --- End quote --- Yeah, that "basket" is supposed to include what you need to survive (although that is pretty arbitrary), but it doesn't reflect the actual value of the items (how much work went into producing them) that typically gets lower and lower every year because of automation (and lower quality), etc. The whole system works so that people get just barely enough to get by. --- End quote --- Well i need a play station less than I need a phone so it should not be included but it is. They do it to mask the skyrocketing of prices on real essentials like food and fuel not to mention housing. In the same way they changed the difinition of poverty so that they could announce a decrease in poverty simply because they lowered the threshold. Infact the UN has even had to issue reports that the government have not liked and simply ignored. Our politicians will only be happy when me are back to the victorian era. |
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