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      And versus a European country (partly to make the point of comparison on public medicine, but also just because I’m interested in how the rest of the chart compares)

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      Would be fun to see the insulin graph drop like a rock due to the Biden price cap just to skyrocket again when Trump reverted it.

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    They use the decreasing price of electronics to average things out and say inflation isn’t so bad. Ignoring the facts that tech gets cheaper because manufacturing improvements mean making it costs less, not because the dollar gains value; and that tech often gets worse over time (race to the bottom).

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    They would have included the profits of the wealthy, but they couldn’t match the scale.

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    BANG BANG BANG

    sorry, that was me banging my head against the desk. Any other interpretation is solely the responsibility of the consumer of the comment.

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      I would bet that that’s technically true because there’s so many houses being built in the urban sprawl suburbs that no reasonable person wants to live in.